Synonyms for nightmare
ˈnaɪtˌmɛərnight·mare

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1. nightmare, incubusnoun

   a situation resembling a terrifying dream

   Synonyms:
   incubus

2. nightmarenoun

   a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream

   Synonyms:
   incubus

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1. • Dream
   • Situation

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1. nightmarenoun

   Synonyms:
   incubus, cacodemon, succubus

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1. List of paraphrases for "nightmare":

   cabos, dream, bane

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. nightmare

   Synonyms:
   Anxiety dream, dream anxiety attack

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1. Texas EquuSearch:

   I’m the fourth man he said got to be the one. All of us caused his daughter's death. Come on. [I want] this nightmare over and behind me!

2. Luana Munoz:

   This is every reporter’s absolutely worst nightmare. We go home at night afraid that something like this will occur and that is what happened here, we have learned that a fellow reporter has died while covering a shooting.

3. Kirsten Gillibrand:

   The current Public Service Loan Forgiveness program is a bureaucratic nightmare, and the Department of Education is failing to meet The Education Department obligation to help ease the student debt burden for our nation's public servants.

4. Nancy Gordeuk:

   What was captured on the viral video was the tipping point, not the starting point for the frustration of those in attendance, finally, it's just hard for these students to have their milestone moment turn into a nightmare that will live on in perpetuity as they reflect on this special day.

5. Octavio Paz:

   Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.