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Nightmarish vs Gigeresque - What's the difference?

nightmarish | gigeresque |

As adjectives the difference between nightmarish and gigeresque

is that nightmarish is resembling a nightmare while Gigeresque is reminiscent of H. R. Giger (born 1940), Swiss surrealist painter best known for nightmarish biomechanical imagery.

nightmarish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resembling a nightmare.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , title=The geography of nowhere: the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape , author=James Howard Kunstler , publisher=Simon and Schuster , year=1994 , isbn=0671888250 , page=10 , passage= Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.}}
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    • Synonyms

    * nightmarey

    Derived terms

    * nightmarishly * nightmarishness

    gigeresque

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Reminiscent of (born 1940), Swiss surrealist painter best known for nightmarish biomechanical imagery.
  • * 2007 , Keith Williams, H.G. Wells, modernity and the movies (page 164)
    • Quatermass also mediated Wellsian influence on the tone and preoccupations of the new hybrid SF–horror-film genre, with its monstrous Gigeresque fusions of machine and organism
    English eponyms