Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like a nightmare.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Terrifying, as if in a nightmare{2}; resembling a nightmare{2}.
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- adjective Resembling a
nightmare .
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- adjective extremely alarming
Etymologies
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Examples
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A horned and fanged bilat, its talons and the corners of its mouth dripping gore, a creature to whom the term nightmarish truly applied.
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The Schott Foundation's new report on young black men in public education comes to what they call a nightmarish conclusion: The American education system is systematically failing black males.
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The Schott Foundation's new report on young black men in public education comes to what they call a nightmarish conclusion: The American education system is systematically failing black males.
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The Schott Foundation's new report on young black men in public education comes to what they call a nightmarish conclusion: The American education system is systematically failing black males.
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NELSON Piquet Jr, the driver at the centre of "Crashgate", has broken his silence over what he described as a nightmarish episode in his
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Please aliens come and pick me back home. .living on earth is friggin nightmarish in its surrealism.
Think Progress » Palin: Palin-Bachmann 2012 ticket ‘sounds kind of cool.’ 2010
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I kept nightmarishly detailed diaries all through my teens, those years that you REALLY do not want to remember in nightmarish detail.
One Year Gone, part II: The Navel-Gazing Year kittenpie 2007
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A prosecutor described in nightmarish detail Thursday the rape, mutilation and killing of a suburban housewife, allegedly at the hands of a worker who was supposed to be power-washing her deck.
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A prosecutor described in nightmarish detail Thursday the rape, mutilation and killing of a suburban housewife, allegedly at the hands of a worker who was supposed to be power-washing her deck.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » “They Only Come to Work” — A Refutation 2006
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A prosecutor described in nightmarish detail Thursday the rape, mutilation and killing of a suburban housewife, allegedly at the hands of a worker who was supposed to be power-washing her deck.
“Without Immigrants, This Country Wouldn’t Be Anything” 2006
dmcleod0914 commented on the word nightmarish
"Clearly today was going to be nightmarish." -Twilight, Stephanie Meyer, pg. 54
October 27, 2010