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nightmarish Definition


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nightmare
noun
    1. A frightening dream.
    2. An intensely distressing or frightful experience or situation.
      Thesaurus: horror, ordeal, torment, trial, tribulation.
Derivative: nightmarish
adj
    Like a nightmare; intensely distressing or frightful.
      Thesaurus: terrifying, unreal, alarming, creepy, demonic, dreadful, fell, disturbing, harrowing, frightening, agonizing, alarming.
Etymology: 16c; 13c, meaning ‘an incubus': from Anglo-Saxon mare an incubus or nightmare-producing monster.



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