frightmare
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An extremely unpleasant and frightening experience.
Example Sentences
- "Try and stick to only a few decorative elements, not a 'more is more' frightmare."
- "It's a Dali-esque frightmare of liquescent forms, a pseudo-organic samplescape congested with scrofulous sound tentacles and slithery slimeshapes."
- "'A cuddly six and a half. Yummier than that Wednesday Addams lookalike Günter's also taken on. Frightmare or what?'"
- "Yes, that must have been the way it had happened, Gibby decided — just one long frightmare, part of it filmed in this bedroom."
- "Wednesday morning, Jamie was pacing back and forth in the small kitchen when she decided that she didn't want to be alone after last night's frightmare."
- "I sure hope so, I think nervously—because between my too tight costume, this too tight dressing room, and High Priestess Abala's too spooky Vampire Spell, this whole thing is turning into a New York frightmare!"