Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: nightmare
IPA transcription: [n'aɪtm,ɛɹ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: nightmare, incubus
    Meaning: a situation resembling a terrifying dream
  • Synonyms: nightmare
    Meaning: a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream
Usage examples
  • Merely for herself, the nightmare might have left her cold.
  • Ah, the ice! A long and sordid nightmare was that, God knows.
  • It was still a nightmare world, but the dream was getting pleasanter.
  • And through it all Buck staggered along at the head of the team as in a nightmare.
  • Nightmare is caused by the nightmare man, a kind of evil spirit, struggling with one.
  • To William it was like some ghastly nightmare after an evening's entertainment at the cinematograph.
  • We'll dump the Atom Smasher into the pond, and try to forget that we've had anything except a bad nightmare."
  • It was like a nightmare, that blind search under the pale three-quarter moon and the black, star-blotched sky.
  • All were happy--the nightmare of unjust dealings, of Norman oppression, of laws for the poor and none for the rich, was ended.
  • Or else it looked as if it had gradually decomposed into that nightmare condition, out of the overflowings of the polluted stream.