“nightmarish”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

nightmarish

释义

ˈnightmarish, a.
[f. as nightmare v. + -ish¹.]
Somewhat like a nightmare; apt to give one the nightmare.
1834Fraser's Mag. X. 439 That wild, disjointed, nightmareish inspiration, which seems the essence of German romanticism.1872King Sierra Nevada ix, After sleeping on the nightmarish brink of the falls.1890Athenæum 9 Aug. 189/2 The story is restrained..in tone, yet there are lurid and nightmarish touches.
Hence ˈnightmarishly adv.
1891Sat. Rev. 4 Apr. 425/2 It is..unspeakably and nightmarishly dull.1915A. Bennett These Twain (1916) ii. xv. 297 The longer Hilda regarded, the more nightmarishly numerous seemed the doors.1934A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 249 Then, nightmarishly proliferating, appear the Pittsburgs and Birminghams, the Osakas and Calcuttas of this unhappy world.1973Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1453/5 Backdrops as nightmarishly accurate as the best of Goya.

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