Definitions for incubus

incubus in·cu·bus

Spelling: [in-kyuh-buh s, ing-]
IPA: /ˈɪn kyə bəs, ˈɪŋ-/

Incubus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in incubus (bcinsuu).

Definitions for incubus

noun

  1. an imaginary demon or evil spirit supposed to descend upon sleeping persons, especially one fabled to have sexual intercourse with women during their sleep. Compare succubus (def 1).
  2. a nightmare.
  3. something that weighs upon or oppresses one like a nightmare.

Origin of incubus

1175-1225; Middle English Late Latin: a nightmare induced by such a demon, noun derivative of Latin incubāre to lie upon; see incubate

Examples for incubus

It relates that one night incubus invaded a certain lady's bedroom.

He even might be considered an incubus, for he had to be cared for in all ways.

I now began to despise my body—I almost hated it as an incubus!

I uncoiled the hose from my shoulder and eased the incubus from my back.

Remember that the Goodeniaceae have weighed like an incubus for years on my soul.

But incubus told her if she would so forsake him, he would be revenged upon her.

I wriggled my back in order to discover, if I could, the nature of the incubus.

It has been an incubus of discouragement in all intellectual pursuits.

Then, my dear Mrs. Berners, if this was not incubus, what do you suppose it to have been?

Three times she strove to throw off the incubus, to speak, but in vain.

Word Value for incubus
Scrable

11

Words with friends

16

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