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nightmarish

[ US /ˈnaɪtˌmɛɹɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /nˈa‍ɪtme‍əɹɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. extremely alarming

How To Use nightmarish In A Sentence

  • Perhaps strangest of all, the American troops brought in their own "psyops" trucks - for psychological operations - and blared sounds that created a nightmarish duet with the mosques: old AC/DC songs, something that sounded like a sonar ping, the cavalry charge. Archive 2004-11-01
  • It surely has the finest opening of any such picture: a nightmarish scene in a fenland graveyard. Times, Sunday Times
  • She reminds us that French revolutionary leaders were often portrayed as wild beasts or savage tigers by critics at the time and that the tiger in the poem is located in a nightmarish industrial landscape.
  • A horned and fanged bilat, its talons and the corners of its mouth dripping gore, a creature to whom the term nightmarish truly applied. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  • Both sisters described a nightmarish existence inside the city where fighters controlled many areas, food and medicine were often in short supply, and the thumping concussions of US bombs had become a daily reality.
  • When Brenda reads to Tony from the morning papers, her disengaged chatter runs together nightmarish grotesqueries and social gossip.
  • NELSON Piquet Jr, the driver at the centre of "Crashgate", has broken his silence over what he described as a nightmarish episode in his WN.com - Articles related to MTDC to hold tourism expo along with Singapore's CEMS
  • The foxed corners and their yellowing hue recalled the nightmarish quality of those hours, his feverish lucubration, searching for their order, for their signification. At Swim, Two Boys
  • Thunder rumbled and lightning flashed, making the scene even more nightmarish.
  • He specialized in mesmeric, often nightmarish visions of scenes from Shakespeare, Milton and Norse mythology. New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn
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