nightmare: meaning and words from its letters
9 letters · 15 letter points · starts with N · ends with E
Meaning of nightmare
noun
A very unpleasant or frightening dream.
Example: I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.
- figuratively
Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
Example: Cleaning up after identity theft can be a nightmare of phone calls and letters.
- archaic
A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
- historical
A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; sleep paralysis.
Listed forms: nightmares.
Source: Wiktionary — nightmare.
verb
- intransitive
To experience a nightmare.
- transitive
To imagine (someone or something) as in a nightmare.
- transitive
To trouble (someone or something), as by a nightmare.
Listed forms: nightmares, nightmaring, nightmared.
Source: Wiktionary — nightmare.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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noun
a situation resembling a terrifying dream
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is nightmare in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of nightmare
N(1) + I(1) + G(2) + H(4) + T(1) + M(3) + A(1) + R(1) + E(1) = 15 points.
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Anagrams of nightmare
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from nightmare
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