Synonyms for Nightmare:

• n.

  •
  • crisis,
  • battle,
  • tragedy,
  • worst-case scenario,
  • trouble,
  • stress.
  •
  • torture,
  • bummer.
  •bad dream or experience (noun)
  • horror,
  • hallucination,
  • incubus,
  • tribulation,
  • torment,
  • illusion.
  •cognition (noun)
  • nightmare.
  •dream (noun)
  • castle in air,
  • castle air,
  • pie in sky,
  • pie the sky,
  • pie sky,
  • castle the air.
  •fancy (noun)
  • envisionings,
  • envisagements,
  • eyes fors,
  • big eye,
  • romancings.
  •fantasy (noun)
  • fancyings,
  • conceivings,
  • externalizings,
  • atlantises,
  • objectifyings,
  • air castles,
  • mind trips,
  • flight imagination,
  • fools paradise,
  • fool paradise.
  •fear (noun)
  • cold sweat,
  • timidity,
  • tremblings.
  •ghost (noun)
  • ghoul,
  • specter,
  • daemon,
  • apparition,
  • ghost,
  • chimera,
  • monster,
  • vampire,
  • terror,
  • bugaboo,
  • bogey man,
  • shadow,
  • myth,
  • frankenstein,
  • spirit,
  • ogre,
  • hobgoblin,
  • dracula,
  • werewolf,
  • bugbear.
  •hell (noun)
  • everlasting fire,
  • lower world,
  • place of torment,
  • infernal regions,
  • hell-fire,
  • infernal region,
  • underworld,
  • hell fire.
  •incubus (noun)
  • succubas.
  •living hell (noun)
  • tortures of damned,
  • living-hell,
  • tortures the damned,
  • tortures damned.
  •ordeal (noun)
  • calvaries.
  •phantom (noun)
  • eidolons,
  • eidola.
  •trial (noun)
  • mis fortunes,
  • in-conveniences,
  • un-happiness,
  • un-happinesses,
  • mis-fortunes,
  • cross bear,
  • in-convenience,
  • trying times,
  • un happinesses,
  • in conveniences,
  • pain neck,
  • mis fortune,
  • pain in neck,
  • severe tests.
  •vision (noun)
  • warlock,
  • breadth of view,
  • castles in air,
  • castles in the air,
  • Visions,
  • ideality,
  • in sight,
  • Idealities.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • entanglement,
  • the hot seat,
  • treadmill,
  • mess,
  • suffering,
  • logjam,
  • impasse,
  • rat race,
  • whammy,
  • slippery slope,
  • deadlock,
  • bitter pill,
  • overcrowding,
  • quagmire,
  • stalemate,
  • fate,
  • travail,
  • perfect storm,
  • the school of hard knocks,
  • living hell,
  • purgatory,
  • double whammy,
  • information overload,
  • toils,
  • no-win situation,
  • mire,
  • misfortune,
  • pressure-cooker,
  • imbroglio,
  • wet dream,
  • misadventure,
  • victimhood,
  • dilemma,
  • double bind,
  • juggling act,
  • poetic justice,
  • plight.
  •
  • jungle,
  • hardship,
  • bad hair day,
  • horror story,
  • palaver,
  • carnage,
  • gridlock,
  • cul de sac,
  • dead-end,
  • discomfort,
  • the doldrums,
  • imposition,
  • tangle,
  • whirlpool.
  •
  • spiral,
  • black hole.
  •
  • jam,
  • curse,
  • rub,
  • tension,
  • scrape,
  • night.
  •
  • distress,
  • pit,
  • trap.
  •
  • spot,
  • crunch.
  •
  • test,
  • knock.
  •
  • corner.
  •
  • fix.
  •
  • low.
  •Other relevant words:
  • forbidding,
  • bogeyman,
  • extravaganza,
  • aspiration,
  • excruciating,
  • ugly,
  • two-bagger,
  • rack,
  • beast,
  • tremendous,
  • horrifying,
  • filthy,
  • load,
  • brown study,
  • nightmarish,
  • crick,
  • fearsome,
  • bogey,
  • hag,
  • hideous,
  • pack,
  • stay,
  • romance,
  • Nightmares,
  • beldam,
  • fantastic,
  • Lancination,
  • gorgon,
  • remora,
  • whimsey,
  • drag,
  • witch,
  • flagrant,
  • lurid,
  • gruesome,
  • burden,
  • macabre,
  • affliction,
  • Fee-faw-fum,
  • cramp,
  • preventive,
  • stop,
  • harridan,
  • reverie,
  • impedimenta,
  • Ephialtes,
  • horrendous,
  • clog,
  • pang,
  • fearful,
  • bad dream,
  • dreadful,
  • scarecrow,
  • laceration,
  • fardel,
  • unholy,
  • ogress,
  • monstrous,
  • appalling,
  • abysmal,
  • eerie,
  • convulsion,
  • whim,
  • throb,
  • crucifixion,
  • scarer,
  • colic,
  • agony,
  • monstrosity,
  • martyrdom,
  • terrible,
  • lumber,
  • awesome,
  • holy terror,
  • onus,
  • vagary,
  • kink,
  • horrid,
  • pipe dream,
  • ambition,
  • crone,
  • duress,
  • disaster,
  • Geste,
  • spasm,
  • execrable,
  • formidable,
  • rhapsody,
  • anguish,
  • frightener,
  • ferocious,
  • fierce,
  • stitch,
  • ghastly,
  • desperate,
  • horrible,
  • revenant,
  • old bat,
  • atrocious,
  • eery,
  • mirage,
  • gehenna,
  • dead weight,
  • agitation,
  • bag,
  • demon,
  • terrific,
  • Cruciation,
  • grim,
  • dire,
  • dog,
  • passion,
  • dreary,
  • conceit,
  • prophylactic,
  • grief,
  • maggot,
  • chaos,
  • creepy,
  • throe,
  • enormous,
  • situation,
  • adversity,
  • incumbrance,
  • grisly,
  • misery,
  • frightful,
  • Gest,
  • daydream,
  • delusion,
  • enfant terrible,
  • Clawing,
  • horrific,
  • encumbrance,
  • desire,
  • shoe,
  • shocking,
  • whimsy,
  • Mormo,
  • phantasy,
  • thrill,
  • redoubtable,
  • skid,
  • persecution,
  • atrocity,
  • concern,
  • spoke,
  • awful,
  • holocaust.

Paraphrases for Nightmare:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    dream.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    cabos.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Hell, spectre.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    horror, misery.

Antonyms for Nightmare:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    delightful, delicious, comforting, agreeable, pleasing, enjoyable, welcome, enticing, delectable, soothing, pleasant, inviting, pleasurable, cheering, satisfying, appealing, attractive.

• n.

  • bad dream or experience
    happiness, reality, peace, truth, fact, certainty, pleasure, actuality, Daymare.

Hyponym for Nightmare:

• n.

  • cognition
    dreaming, dream.
  • state
    situation.