Nightmarish
adjective
Extremely frightening or unpleasant.
He had a nightmarish dream last night.
Often appears as...
- nightmarish experience
- nightmarish scenario
adjective
Very difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
It was a nightmarish task to ensure everything was in order.
Often appears as...
- nightmarish task
- nightmarish situation
adjective
Extremely frightening or unpleasant.
He had a nightmarish dream last night.
Often appears as...
- nightmarish experience
- nightmarish scenario
adjective
Very difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
It was a nightmarish task to ensure everything was in order.
Often appears as...
- nightmarish task
- nightmarish situation
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Conveys strong negative feelings, usually more intense than just 'bad' or 'unpleasant'.
The movie was nightmarish, leaving viewers uneasy.
Pro Tip 2/3Figurative Use
Often used to describe situations that are not literally from a nightmare but feel as bad.
The traffic jam was nightmarish with no end in sight.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasis Tool
Amplifies the severity or intensity of a scenario beyond the ordinary.
Surviving the storm was a nightmarish ordeal.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Conveys strong negative feelings, usually more intense than just 'bad' or 'unpleasant'.
The movie was nightmarish, leaving viewers uneasy.
Pro Tip 2/3Figurative Use
Often used to describe situations that are not literally from a nightmare but feel as bad.
The traffic jam was nightmarish with no end in sight.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasis Tool
Amplifies the severity or intensity of a scenario beyond the ordinary.
Surviving the storm was a nightmarish ordeal.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Conveys strong negative feelings, usually more intense than just 'bad' or 'unpleasant'.
The movie was nightmarish, leaving viewers uneasy.
Pro Tip 2/3Figurative Use
Often used to describe situations that are not literally from a nightmare but feel as bad.
The traffic jam was nightmarish with no end in sight.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasis Tool
Amplifies the severity or intensity of a scenario beyond the ordinary.
Surviving the storm was a nightmarish ordeal.
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The voices in my head PIPE...
Now essentially, this represented taking an aggressive stance towards my own mind, a kind of psychic civil war, and in turn this caused the number of voices to increase and grow progressively hostile and menacing. Helplessly and hopelessly, I began to retreat into this nightmarish inner world
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Inside the Tripper's...
nightmarish and I think everyone is out to get me everyone is watching me and I'm losing it if you are not with people you trust and you look at them and they look at you and they seem to be dangerous and truly ignorant you then can become paranoid which raises the
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What would happen if you...
places the body in a nightmarish state of wakefulness, forbidding it from entering the sanctuary of sleep. Within months or years, this progressively worsening condition leads to dementia and death.
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Antlion Traps and...
waits the angle of the slope is just the right side of unstable put one foot wrong and it becomes a slippery slope to a nightmarish end
Video examples
The voices in my head PIPE...
Now essentially, this represented taking an aggressive stance towards my own mind, a kind of psychic civil war, and in turn this caused the number of voices to increase and grow progressively hostile and menacing. Helplessly and hopelessly, I began to retreat into this nightmarish inner world
Video examples
Inside the Tripper's...
nightmarish and I think everyone is out to get me everyone is watching me and I'm losing it if you are not with people you trust and you look at them and they look at you and they seem to be dangerous and truly ignorant you then can become paranoid which raises the
Video examples
What would happen if you...
places the body in a nightmarish state of wakefulness, forbidding it from entering the sanctuary of sleep. Within months or years, this progressively worsening condition leads to dementia and death.
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Antlion Traps and...
waits the angle of the slope is just the right side of unstable put one foot wrong and it becomes a slippery slope to a nightmarish end
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Quote examples
James Howard Kunstler
American Author
Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.
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Kate Moss
English Model
People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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Paul Dini
American Writer
I think that when you've got a world in which it's plausible to have a guy dressed as a giant bat and fight evil clowns and other nightmarish freaks, I think the world has to be visually a little more arresting than a regular world.
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Edgar Wright
English Director
If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.
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Judy Garland
American Actress
You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
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Alan Moore
British Writer
I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.
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Paul G. Tremblay
American Author
Martha Marcy May Marlene' is excellent. I adore how the film is both grounded in realism and, at the same time, it has an ethereal, nightmarish atmosphere.
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Rupert Friend
English Actor
I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing.
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Kelsey Grammer
American Actor
There are so many people that would be lined up to get their cut that even trying to finance a reboot of 'Frasier' would be nightmarish.
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Julia Sweeney
American Comedian
Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish?
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James Howard Kunstler
American Author
Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.
Quote examples
Kate Moss
English Model
People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
Quote examples
Paul Dini
American Writer
I think that when you've got a world in which it's plausible to have a guy dressed as a giant bat and fight evil clowns and other nightmarish freaks, I think the world has to be visually a little more arresting than a regular world.
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Edgar Wright
English Director
If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.
Quote examples
Judy Garland
American Actress
You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
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Alan Moore
British Writer
I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.
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Paul G. Tremblay
American Author
Martha Marcy May Marlene' is excellent. I adore how the film is both grounded in realism and, at the same time, it has an ethereal, nightmarish atmosphere.
Quote examples
Rupert Friend
English Actor
I have to be absolutely drawn to the project. If you're ashamed or bored by it at the beginning, it's going to be a pretty nightmarish thing.
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Kelsey Grammer
American Actor
There are so many people that would be lined up to get their cut that even trying to finance a reboot of 'Frasier' would be nightmarish.
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Julia Sweeney
American Comedian
Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish?
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