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单词 nightmarish
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Definition of nightmarish in English:

nightmarish

adjective ˈnʌɪtmɛːrɪʃˈnaɪtˌmɛrɪʃ
  • Of the nature of a nightmare; very frightening or unpleasant.

    a nightmarish vision of the future
    a nightmarish eight-hour journey
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I mean it's a sort of a mythic, horrible, nightmarish kind of vision, isn't it?
    • Once night falls and your enemies switch from the mundane to the nightmarish, the game becomes a dark feast for the senses.
    • Not only did this nightmarish thing provoke instant nausea, it blocked my entire view of the stage!
    • It was the middle of the day, and the cloudless sky above took on a nightmarish shade of black.
    • The story of the seven nightmarish days will be screened tonight at 7pm, with the second episode on January 15.
    Synonyms
    unearthly, monstrous, ghostly, spine-chilling, horrific, macabre, hideous, unspeakable, gruesome, grisly, ghastly, harrowing, hair-raising, disturbing, Kafkaesque
    informal scary, creepy
    rare phantasmagorical

Derivatives

  • nightmarishly

  • adverbˈnʌɪtmɛːrɪʃ(ə)liˈnaɪtˌmɛrɪʃli
    • If you use the same room that you use for nightmarishly boring status meetings, don't expect people to be stimulated by the surroundings.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Of those entitled to claim the pensions credit, 1.7 million failed to do so because it is ‘so nightmarishly complicated’.
      • It is certainly much less nightmarishly violent than his previous mainstream novels, in which animals and people are often horrifically tortured.
      • We had shot seven wasteful wides to a solitary one from the hosts in that half, and of course the concession of those nightmarishly soft brace of goals compounded what had become a very difficult situation.
      • Most nightmarishly, some worried that governments could one day use brain implants to monitor and perhaps even control citizens' behavior.

Definition of nightmarish in US English:

nightmarish

adjectiveˈnaɪtˌmɛrɪʃˈnītˌmeriSH
  • Of the nature of a nightmare; very frightening or unpleasant.

    a nightmarish vision of the future
    a nightmarish eight-hour journey
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The story of the seven nightmarish days will be screened tonight at 7pm, with the second episode on January 15.
    • It was the middle of the day, and the cloudless sky above took on a nightmarish shade of black.
    • I mean it's a sort of a mythic, horrible, nightmarish kind of vision, isn't it?
    • Once night falls and your enemies switch from the mundane to the nightmarish, the game becomes a dark feast for the senses.
    • Not only did this nightmarish thing provoke instant nausea, it blocked my entire view of the stage!
    Synonyms
    unearthly, monstrous, ghostly, spine-chilling, horrific, macabre, hideous, unspeakable, gruesome, grisly, ghastly, harrowing, hair-raising, disturbing, kafkaesque
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