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nightmarish

[ nahyt-mair-ish ]

adjective

  1. resembling a nightmare, especially in being terrifying, exasperating, or the like:

    his nightmarish experience in a concentration camp.



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Other 51Թ Forms

  • Ծmi· adverb
  • Ծmi·Ա noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of nightmarish1

First recorded in 1825–35; nightmare + -ish 1
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In one nightmarish game in Philadelphia, when he went 0-for-5 shooting while being consistently burned on defense in 15 awful minutes, he was miles from great.

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The Mustangs avenged a loss in the finals of the Best of the West Tournament in San Diego two weeks ago — and ended a nightmarish losing streak against the Cubs.

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What makes use of the device so insidious is not simply the monitoring, of course, but that trivial actions, and even non-actions, mere thoughts, lead inexorably to nightmarish scenarios.

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A difficult day became a nightmarish one early in the second quarter when Russell and Graham ran into each other in their desperation to halt Jamison Gibson Park and took themselves out of the game.

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To that point, well into the third quarter, it had been a nightmarish night for the USC star.

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