nightmarish

English

Etymology

nightmare +‎ -ish

Adjective

nightmarish (comparative more nightmarish, superlative most nightmarish)

Resembling a nightmare.
- 1994, James Howard Kunstler, The geography of nowhere: the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 10:
  Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.

Synonyms

nightmarey

Derived terms

Translations

resembling a nightmare

Esperanto: premsonĝa
Finnish: painajaismainen (fi)
French: cauchemardesque (fr)
German: albtraumhaft (de), alptraumhaft (de), albtraumartig, alptraumartig
Greek: εφιαλτικός (el) (efialtikós)
Italian: da incubo
Latvian: murgains m

Lithuanian: košmariškos
Polish: koszmarny (pl) m
Portuguese: pesadelar; more commonly “to be nightmarish” → “ser um pesadelo”
Russian: кошма́рный (ru) m (košmárnyj)
Spanish: pesadillesco
Swedish: mardrömslik
Volapük: kojmarasümik

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