All nightmare synonyms
night·mare
N n noun nightmare
- dream — a succession of images, thoughts, or emotions passing through the mind during sleep.
- hallucination — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
- vision — the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
- incubus — 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).
- fantasy — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
- horror — an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.
- ordeal — any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
- fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
- phantasm — an apparition or specter.
- succubus — a demon in female form, said to have sexual intercourse with men in their sleep. Compare incubus (def 1).
- torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
- trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
- tribulation — grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering.
adjective nightmare
- traumatic — of, relating to, or produced by a trauma or wound.
- frightening — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- terrifying — to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
- terrible — distressing; severe: a terrible winter.
- dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
- horrendous — shockingly dreadful; horrible: a horrendous crime.
- nightmarish — resembling a nightmare, especially in being terrifying, exasperating, or the like: his nightmarish experience in a concentration camp.