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flightmare

flightmare noun: an unpleasant flight or experience during air travel.

Noun

flightmare (plural flightmares)

  1. An unpleasant flight or experience during air travel.
    • She glanced, for the first time since this flightmare started, to the man sitting in the aisle seat beside her.2011, Joe Shrader, Eden Falls, page 118
    • I was so grateful to see my children that day, and even Jake was a sight for sore eyes after the “flightmare” from hell.2015, Mary Helen Hensley, Promised by Heaven
  2. (roleplaying games) A type of dragon with poisonous breath that feeds on luminous algae.
    • Flames like flightmare algae hidden within the enclaves of a kaleidoscope illusion, a gateway into the god's secret treasure chest.2020, Gaston D. Cox, Aurea Mediocritas: A Book of Short Stories

Forms of flightmare

pluralflightmares
alternative formflight-mare

Origin of flightmare

Blend of flight + nightmare. Compare also frightmare.

Questions about flightmare

What does flightmare mean?
Flightmare means an unpleasant flight or experience during air travel.
What part of speech is flightmare?
Flightmare is a noun.
What is the plural of flightmare?
The plural of flightmare is flightmares.

Words near flightmare in the dictionary

  1. flightlines
  2. flightling
  3. flightlings
  4. flightmap
  5. flightmaps
  6. flightmare
  7. flightmares
  8. flightpath
  9. flightpaths
  10. flights
  11. flights of beer

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