nightmare

Определение nightmare в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: A demon, often in the form of a goblin, thought to plague people while they slept; Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure
Cleaning up after identity theft can be a nightmare of phone calls and letters.; A very bad or frightening dream
I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.; {n} a morbid oppression of the breast; (10) - The Defending Pokémon is now Asleep Pokémon with this attack: Drowzee L10, Gastly L12, Haunter L17, Sabrina's Haunter L29; A nightmare is a very frightening dream. All the victims still suffered nightmares Jane did not eat cheese because it gives her nightmares; a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream a situation resembling a terrifying dream; A frightening dream occurring in REM sleep; an image of the future which articulates an individual’s or group’s greatest concerns, worries, and fears, in a negative statement of a highly feared future outcome; emphasis If you refer to a situation as a nightmare, you are saying in a very emphatic way that it is irritating because it causes you a lot of trouble. Taking my son Peter to a restaurant was a nightmare In practice a graduate tax is an administrative nightmare; A very bad or scary dream; unpleasant and/or frightening dream occurring in REM sleep (different from a night terror); a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream; If you refer to a situation as a nightmare, you mean that it is very frightening and unpleasant. The years in prison were a nightmare; a situation resembling a terrifying dream; Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses severe anxiety, terror or agony; A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc; A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep; a fantasy that comes true (as demonstrated in the TV program "Fantasy Island"); A dream causing strong feelings of fear, horror and distress; {i} frightening dream; experience suggestive of a nightmare; Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying influence; or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of mind; incubus; lit: bad dream this is a character run by a sentient who is not the original creator of that character for example, an evil er-per’henne made an artifact called The Maker of Nightmares, which makes a photocopy of a PC character sheet to be run as a NPC while nightmares are similar to clones, nightmares are usually worse they don’t want to kill you, they want to do what you do better than your PC common jokes about nightmares include "I can run your character better than you can " however, nightmares are not evil Justin and Damon Maker are examples of good PCs who are nightmares of good aligned PCs Justin and Champion Eternal, characters willingly retired by Sentient Brian D Blacksword is a kindhearted PC nightmare of the NPC Llewellyn There are rumors of a NPC nightmare of the good-aligned PC Silverfox out there, but it’s probably catatonic with self-loathing (sorry Chris ;-); pnigalion; bad dream
Nightmare on Elm Street: American horror movie
nightmare scenario: If you describe a situation or event as a nightmare scenario, you mean that it is the worst possible thing that could happen. Discovering your child takes drugs is a nightmare scenario for most parents
logistical nightmare: A military situation for which it is difficult to plan or organize the logistics
logistical nightmare: Any situation or event that requires considerable coordination of many people, beyond the original organizer's expectations
A Nightmare on Elm Street: a US horror film (=a film that is intended to make you feel frightened) about a frightening character called Freddy Krueger who has knives instead of fingernails, and who appears in people's dreams and tries to kill them (1984)
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The nightmare: ephialtes
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The nightmare: incubus
nightmares: Perchance to DreamNightmare as a ChildTwenty-TwoShadow Play
nightmares: Chalcedony, Citrine, Holey Stones, Jet, Lepidolite, Ruby
nightmares: Dreams that occur during REM sleep and whose content is exceptionally frightening, sad, angry, or in some other way uncomfortable (p 168)
nightmares: plural of nightmare
nightmarish: {s} terrifying, resembling a nightmare
nightmarish: extremely alarming
nightmarish: If you describe something as nightmarish, you mean that it is extremely frightening and unpleasant. She described a nightmarish scene of dead bodies lying in the streets
nightmarish: resembling a nightmare