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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

also used for nightmare

succubus, night hag

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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

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Forms of nightmare

as a noun

plural
nightmares