Nightmare

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  • noun. A dream arousing feelings of intense fear, horror, and distress.
  • noun. An event or experience that is intensely distressing.
  • noun. A demon or spirit once thought to plague sleeping people.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An incubus or evil spirit that oppresses people during sleep.
  • noun. An oppressed state during sleep, accompanied by a feeling of intense fear, horror, or anxiety, or of inability to escape from some threatened danger or from pursuing phantoms or monsters. Also called incubus.
  • noun. Any overpowering, oppressive, or stupefying influence.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
  • noun. A trerrifying or oppressive dream characterized by a sense of helplessness in the face of danger, extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.) or extreme anxiety, from which one wakes in a troubled state of mind.
  • noun. Any overwhelming, oppressive, or terrifying experience resembling a nightmare{2} especially in the inability to escape from an unpleasant situation.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A female demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
  • noun. A very bad or frightening dream.
  • noun. Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a situation resembling a terrifying dream
  • noun. a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream
    • Word Usage
    "To expect politicians to correct this nightmare is a fantasy."
    cross-reference
    horror  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dream  dreaming  situation  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    agony  chaos  delusion  dread  dream  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Dracula  Frankenstein  Wolf-man  bad dream  bogey  
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