Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
nightmare ;nightmarish .
Etymologies
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nightmare + -like
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Examples
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I also find a lot of PKD's work to have a dreamlike or nightmarelike quality to it.
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He was in a maze, a maze of the serpent-elf's magical creation, a frustrating, nightmarelike concoction that would have Haplo running endlessly, going nowhere except insane.
The Hand of Chaos Hickman, Tracy 1993
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He swam with nightmarelike difficulty back to the communicator.
Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935
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