Definition for Nightmare:

• n[= i]t'm[= a]r, n. a dreadful dream accompanied with pressure on the breast, and a feeling of powerlessness to move or speak-- personified as an incubus or evil-spirit.-- adj. NIGHT'MARISH. [ A.S. niht, night, mara, a nightmare; cf. Old High Ger. mara, incubus, Ice. mara, nightmare.]

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.
  •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.

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.

Nightmare Sentence Examples:

• It all now seemed like a horrible nightmare, from which she tried in vain to wake.

• And the nightmare went on for both of them, under the calm surface of an ordinary Sunday.

Hyponym for Nightmare:

• n.

  • cognition
    dreaming, dream.
  • state
    situation.