DAYMARES Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

daymares

noun

plural of daymare

as in nightmares

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nightmares

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Its heroine, Calypso, wakes up each day to find her dreams – or nightmares – become part of her real life.

— Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2026
In outline, these are elegant Bond-villain machines for faceless, leaderless, pervasive espionage and assassination, the stuff of paranoid nightmares and stochastic violence.

— Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

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