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nightmarish

adj

Etymology

From nightmare + -ish.

  1. inherited from *nihtmare✻
  2. inherited from nyghtmare
  3. suffixed as nightmarish — “nightmare + -ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling a nightmare.

    • Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.
    • The dragon from under-earth, the nightmarish destroyer, lay destroyed as well, utterly without life.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA