nightmare
/ˈnaɪt.mɛɚ/noun2 syllables
Nightmare means: a situation resembling a terrifying dream.
Synonyms for nightmare3
noun, as in a situation resembling a terrifying dream
incubus
What does nightmare mean?2
noun
1
a situation resembling a terrifying dream
2
a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Nightmare in a sentence
- Because your boss is incompetent, he's making your life a nightmare.Amastan
- The holiday, which began like a dream, was to end in nightmare.sundown
- For motorists, the city centre is a nightmare of narrow one-way streets.sundown
- Youth is a dream, and old age is a nightmare.carlosalberto
- If we lived in a monolingual world, it would be a nightmare.rul
- This memory weighs, as a nightmare would, on my soul.belgavox
- She woke up suddenly, startled by her terrible nightmare!timoteojohano
- For someone like me, getting busted was the worst nightmare.Amastan
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of nightmare
as a noun
- plural
- nightmares