English
Noun
Nightmare (plural Nightmares)
- A very bad or frightening dream.
- I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.
- (figuratively) Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
- Cleaning up after identity theft can be a nightmare of phone calls and letters.
- (obsolete) A demon, often in the form of a goblin, thought to plague people while they slept
Adjectives for Nightmare
horrifying; preposterous; fiendish; racking;
catapulting; portentous; indistinguishable;
intolerable; weird; half-vanishing; hideous;
weary; eyeless; horrible; financial; veritable.
Verbs for Nightmare
beset with—; conceive in—; convulse in—;
fancy in—; free from—; imagine in—; picture in—; plunge into—; sink into—; toss in
—; unloose—; —alarms; —chokes; —distresses; —settles on; —strains; —strangles;
—suffocates; —terrifies; —tortures; — weighs.
Thesaurus
Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-man, bad dream, bogey, bogeyman, brown study, bugaboo, bugbear, clawing, cruciation, crucifixion, daydream, dream, fantasy, fee-faw-fum, frightener, ghost, ghoul, hell, hell upon earth, hobgoblin, holocaust, holy terror, horror, incubus, laceration, lancination, martyrdom, monster, ogre, ogress, passion, persecution, phantom, pipe dream, purgatory, rack, revenant, reverie, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, specter, succubus, terror, torment, torture, vampire, vision, werewolf
Etymology
night + mare
Pronunciation
Translations
a very bad or frightening dream
- Albanian: ankth (sq)
- Arabic: كابوس (ar) (kaabuus) m.
- Armenian: մղձավանջ (hy) (mġjavanǰ)
- Asturian: velea, pesadiella
- Basque: amesgaizto
- Bengali: দুঃস্বপ্ন (duḥsbapna), কুস্বপ্ন (kusbapna)
- Bosnian: noćna mora (bs) f., košmar (bs) m.
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- Catalan: malson m.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 噩夢 (cmn), 噩梦 (cmn) (èmèng), 惡夢 (cmn), 恶梦 (cmn) (èmèng)
- Corsican: sunniacciu, sonniacciu, sugnacciu
- Czech: noční můra (cs) f.
- Danish: mareridt (da) n.
- Dutch: nachtmerrie (nl) f.
- Esperanto: sonĝaĉo (eo)
- Estonian: õudusunenägu, košmaar
- Finnish: painajainen (fi)
- French: cauchemar (fr) m., mauvais rêve
- Friulian: čhalčhut
- Galician: pesadelo
- Georgian: კოშმარი (košmari), მაჯლაჯუნა (madžladžuna)
- German: Albtraum m., Alptraum m., Albdruck m. (old), Alpdruck m. (old) Nachtmahr
- Greek: εφιάλτης (el) (efiáltis) m.
- Gujarati: દુઃસ્વપ્ન
- Hawaiian: moehewa
- Hebrew: סִיּוּט (he) (siyút) m.
- Hindi: दुःस्वप्न (hi) (duḥsapn) m., कुस्वप्न (hi) (kusapn) m.
- Hungarian: lidércnyomás (hu), rémálom (hu)
- Icelandic: martröð (is) f.
- Indonesian: mimpi buruk (id)
- Irish: tromluí (ga) m.
- Italian: incubo (it) m., brutto sogno
- Japanese: 悪夢 (ja) (あくむ, akumu)
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- Khmer: សប្តិអាក្រក់ (sopdteu aagrok), ទុសុបិន (dtosobeun)
- Korean: 악몽 (ko) (akmong) (惡夢 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: خهوی ناخۆش (ku)
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- Ladin: strassomech, trota
- Latin: incubus (la)
- Latvian: murgi (lv)
- Lithuanian: košmaras (lt)
- Low Saxon: Alpdröm
- Lower Sorbian: mórawa
- Luhya: liroro libi
- Macedonian: кошмар m.
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- Maori: moepapa (mi), moenanu (mi)
- Mongolian: аймшиг (mn) (aymšig)
- Norwegian: mareritt n.
- Ojibwe: giiwanaadingwaam, zegingwashi
- Old English: ælfādl (ang)
- Persian: کابوس (fa) (kabus)
- Polish: koszmar (pl) m.
- Portuguese: pesadelo (pt) m.
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- Romanian: coşmar (ro) n.
- Romansh: dischariel, derschalet, darschalet, dischöl, fulet, ischier
- Russian: кошмар (ru) (košmár) m.
- Sanskrit: दुःस्वप्न (sa) (duḥsvapna) m.
- Saterland Frisian:
- Scottish Gaelic: mearan-cadail, trom-laighe
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: ноћна мора f., кошмар m.
- Roman: noćna mora f., košmar m.
- Spanish: pesadilla (es) f.
- Swahili: jinamizi (noun 5/6)
- Swedish: mardröm (sv) c.
- Tagalog: bangungot
- Tamil: அமுக்கி (amukki)
- Telugu: (dusswapnam)
- Thai: ฝันร้าย (th) (făn ráai)
- Turkish: kâbus (tr)
- Urdu: کابوس (ur) (kābūs) m., کسوپن (ur) (kusapn) m.
- Vietnamese: ác mộng (vi)
- Volapük: kojmar (vo)
- Welsh: hunllef (cy) f.
- Yiddish: בײַזער חלום (bayzer kholem) m.
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a bad or difficult experience
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