| Main Entry: | nightmarish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | frightening |
Synonyms: |
alarming, awful, chilling, creepy, dire, direful, disquieting, dreadful, eerie, fearful, fearsome, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, hair-raising, hellish, horrible, horrid, horrifying, macabre, morbid, ominous, petrifying, scary, spooky, terrible, terrifying, traumatic, unnerving |
| Main Entry: | creepy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, scary |
Synonyms: |
awful, direful, disgusting, disturbing, dreadful, eerie, frightening, ghoulish, gruesome, hair-raising, horrible, itching, itchy, macabre, menacing, nightmarish, ominous, shuddersome, sinister, terrifying, threatening, unpleasant, weird |
Antonyms: |
good, nice, normal, pleasant, pleasing, unscary |
| Main Entry: | dreamy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illusory, romantic |
Synonyms: |
abstracted, astral, calming, chimerical, daydreaming, excellent, fanciful, fantastic, gentle, idealistic, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, intangible, introspective, introvertive, lulling, marvelous, misty, musing, mythical, nightmarish, otherworldly, out of this world, pensive, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, preoccupied, quixotic, relaxing, shadowy, soothing, speculative, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vague, visionary, whimsical |
Antonyms: |
horrible, terrible, unromantic |
| Main Entry: | unearthly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | supernatural; very strange |
Synonyms: |
abnormal, absurd, appalling, demoniac, devilish, eerie, ethereal, extraordinary, fiendish, frightening, funereal, ghastly, ghostly, ghoulish, hair-raising, haunted, heavenly, hyperphysical, miraculous, nightmarish, not of this world, phantom, preternatural, ridiculous, scary, sepulchral, spectral, spooky*, sublime, superhuman, uncanny, ungodly, unholy, unreasonable, weird |
Antonyms: |
earthly, natural, physical |
| Main Entry: | bloodcurdling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrible |
Synonyms: |
alarming, atrocious, chilling, frightening, hair-raising, horrid, horrific, horrifying, nightmarish, scary, terrifying |
| Main Entry: | moony |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dreamy |
Synonyms: |
abstracted, astral, calming, chimerical, daydreaming, excellent, fanciful, fantastic, gentle, idealistic, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, intangible, introspective, introvertive, lulling, marvelous, misty, musing, mythical, nightmarish, otherworldly, out of this world, pensive, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, preoccupied, quixotic, relaxing, shadowy, soothing, speculative, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vague, visionary, whimsical, woolgathering |