Plural of nightmare
regular plural
The plural of nightmare is nightmares.
Forms of nightmare
| Singular | nightmare /ˈnaɪt.mɛə/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | nightmares |
| Countable | countable |
Nightmares in a sentence
- Your nightmares stopped when you were eight years old, but after the house burned down, you regressed.From the entry regress
- He still has nightmares resulting from the abusive treatment he received from his captors.From the entry treatment
- The children's mother was worried that the spine-chilling ghost film would give them nightmares.From the entry spine-chilling
- The cold was a foreboder of the nightmares of the winter that lay ahead.From the entry foreboder
- The first time I watched Chucky, I had nightmares for weeks.From the entry chucky
Meaning of nightmare
- noun A very unpleasant or frightening dream.
- noun Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
- noun A demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
Questions about the plural of nightmare
- What is the plural of nightmare?
- The plural of nightmare is nightmares.
- Is nightmare countable?
- Nightmare is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nightmare (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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