Nightmare

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A dream arousing feelings of intense fear, horror, and distress.
  • n. An event or experience that is intensely distressing.
  • n. A demon or spirit once thought to plague sleeping people.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A female demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
  • n. A very bad or frightening dream.
  • n. Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Any overwhelming, oppressive, or terrifying experience resembling a nightmare{2} especially in the inability to escape from an unpleasant situation.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An incubus or evil spirit that oppresses people during sleep.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Any overpowering, oppressive, or stupefying influence.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a situation resembling a terrifying dream
  • n. a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    situation    dreaming    dream   
    Cross Reference
    horror   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    night terror    incubus   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    dream    fantasy    horror    headache    agony   
     
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