Definitions for nightmare

nightmare night·mare

Spelling: [nahyt-mair]
IPA: /ˈnaɪtˌmɛər/

Nightmare is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 680 anagrams from letters in nightmare (aeghimnrt).

Definitions for nightmare

noun

  1. a terrifying dream in which the dreamer experiences feelings of helplessness, extreme anxiety, sorrow, etc.
  2. a condition, thought, or experience suggestive of a nightmare:
  3. (formerly) a monster or evil spirit believed to oppress persons during sleep.

Origin of nightmare

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at night, mare2

Examples for nightmare

His lone stable was a girl from Newport News, Virginia, who had already escaped one nightmare.

Being buried alive is a nightmare that ranks alongside masked chainsaw-wielding madmen and enormous tarantulas.

If Bush-Portman is the Republican nightmare ticket for Democrats, however, they may be spared.

For there is nothing so delightful as a nightmare—when you know it is a nightmare.

So a nightmare of thought teemed through his brain as he rode.

You know, I feel the same way about that that I do about The nightmare Before Christmas.

What was it—madness, a nightmare, or a trap into which he had been decoyed with fiendish artfulness?

The dread of French domination seems to have haunted him like a nightmare.

The dread of poverty is a nightmare; it wears one's life threadbare.

“We challenge Mr. Cosby to end this nightmare,” proclaimed Gloria Allred.

Word Value for nightmare
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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