Nightmare

Noun

 * 1) A very bad or frightening dream.
 * I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  A demon, often in the form of a goblin, thought to plague people while they slept

Adjectives for Nightmare
horrifying; preposterous; fiendish; racking; catapulting; portentous; indistinguishable; intolerable; weird; half-vanishing; hideous; weary; eyeless; horrible; financial; veritable.

Verbs for Nightmare
beset with—; conceive in—; convulse in—; fancy in—; free from—; imagine in—; picture in—; plunge into—; sink into—; toss in —; unloose—; —alarms; —chokes; —distresses; —settles on; —strains; —strangles; —suffocates; —terrifies;   —tortures;   — weighs.

Thesaurus
Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf-man, bad dream, bogey, bogeyman, brown study, bugaboo, bugbear, clawing, cruciation, crucifixion, daydream, dream, fantasy, fee-faw-fum, frightener, ghost, ghoul, hell, hell upon earth, hobgoblin, holocaust, holy terror, horror, incubus, laceration, lancination, martyrdom, monster, ogre, ogress, passion, persecution, phantom, pipe dream, purgatory, rack, revenant, reverie, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, specter, succubus, terror, torment, torture, vampire, vision, werewolf

Etymology
night + mare

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: velea, pesadiella
 * Basque: amesgaizto
 * Bengali: (duḥsbapna),  (kusbapna)
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Catalan: malson
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,
 * Corsican: sunniacciu, sonniacciu, sugnacciu
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: õudusunenägu, košmaar
 * Finnish:
 * French:, mauvais rêve
 * Friulian: čhalčhut
 * Galician: pesadelo
 * Georgian: კოშმარი (košmari), მაჯლაჯუნა (madžladžuna)
 * German: Albtraum, Alptraum , Albdruck (old), Alpdruck  (old) Nachtmahr
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: દુઃસ્વપ્ન
 * Hawaiian: moehewa
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, कुस्वप्न
 * Hungarian:, rémálom
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, brutto sogno
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: (sopdteu aagrok),  (dtosobeun)
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: خه‌وی ناخۆش
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: خه‌وی ناخۆش


 * Ladin: strassomech, trota
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low Saxon: Alpdröm
 * Lower Sorbian: mórawa
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian: кошмар
 * Maori: ,
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian: mareritt
 * Ojibwe: giiwanaadingwaam, zegingwashi
 * Old English:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansh: dischariel, derschalet, darschalet, dischöl, fulet, ischier
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Saterland Frisian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mearan-cadail, trom-laighe
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ноћна мора, кошмар
 * Roman: noćna mora, košmar
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: jinamizi (noun 5/6)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bangungot
 * Tamil: அமுக்கி (amukki)
 * Telugu: (dusswapnam)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu:, کسوپن
 * Vietnamese: ác mộng
 * Volapük: kojmar
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: בײַזער חלום (bayzer kholem)
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: בײַזער חלום (bayzer kholem)


 * Armenian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Icelandic: martröð, hryllingur
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: kojmar

Synonyms

 * incubus
 * night terror