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nightmarish /ˈnʌɪtmɛːrɪʃ /adjectiveOf the nature of a nightmare; very frightening or unpleasant: a nightmarish vision of the future a nightmarish eight-hour journey...- I mean it's a sort of a mythic, horrible, nightmarish kind of vision, isn't it?
- Not only did this nightmarish thing provoke instant nausea, it blocked my entire view of the stage!
- It was the middle of the day, and the cloudless sky above took on a nightmarish shade of black.
Synonyms unearthly, monstrous, ghostly, spine-chilling, horrific, macabre, hideous, unspeakable, gruesome, grisly, ghastly, harrowing, hair-raising, disturbing, Kafkaesque informal scary, creepy rare phantasmagorical Derivativesnightmarishly /ˈnʌɪtmɛːrɪʃ(ə)li / adverb ...- We had shot seven wasteful wides to a solitary one from the hosts in that half, and of course the concession of those nightmarishly soft brace of goals compounded what had become a very difficult situation.
- Most nightmarishly, some worried that governments could one day use brain implants to monitor and perhaps even control citizens' behavior.
- Of those entitled to claim the pensions credit, 1.7 million failed to do so because it is ‘so nightmarishly complicated’.
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