Definitions
a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream
Word origin
From Middle English nyghtmare, from Old English *nihtmare, equivalent to night + mare (“evil spirit believed to afflict a sleeping person”). Cognate with Scots nichtmare and nichtmeer, Dutch nachtmerrie, Middle Low German nachtmār, German Nachtmahr.
Used in a sentence
“I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.”
“Cleaning up after identity theft can be a nightmare of phone calls and letters.”
“The Red Holocaust is best interpreted in this light as the bitter fruit of an^([sic]) utopian gambit that was socially misengineered into a dystopic nightmare by despots in humanitarian disguise.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“bad dream”9 letters
02“terrible dream”9 letters
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