Frightening vs Nightmare - What's the difference?
frightening | nightmare |
Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.
(figuratively) Awful, terrible, very bad.
A female demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.
* 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy :
*1843 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘The Black Cat’:
*:I started, hourly, from dreams of unutterable fear, to find the hot breath of the thing upon my face, and its vast weight—an incarnate Night-Mare that I had no power to shake off—incumbent eternally upon my heart!
A very bad or frightening dream.
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
(figuratively) Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.
In context|figuratively|lang=en terms the difference between frightening and nightmare
is that frightening is (figuratively) awful, terrible, very bad while nightmare is (figuratively) any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure.As a adjective frightening
is causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.As a verb frightening
is .As a noun nightmare is
a female demon or monster, thought to plague people while they slept and cause a feeling of suffocation and terror during sleep.frightening
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The frightening scientist lived in an old shack.
Synonyms
*Verb
(head)- The scientist was frightening the timid children.
nightmare
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(wikipedia nightmare)Noun
(en noun)- It haunted me, however, more than once, like the nightmare .
- I had a nightmare that I tried to run but could neither move nor breathe.
- With his crude potato-sack mask and fear-inducing toxins, The Scarecrow, a “psychopharmacologist” at an insane asylum, acts as a conjurer of nightmares , capable of turning his patients’ most terrifying anxieties against them.
- Cleaning up after identity theft can be a nightmare of phone calls and letters.