hagridden

9.9

Troubled by bad dreams and strong, unreasonable fears

adjective
/ˈhæɡrɪdən/

Archaic

: atormentado

He had become hagridden, unable to shake off the oppressive fears that haunted him.

Examples

After weeks of sleepless nights, she felt hagridden by her recurring nightmares.
The child's constant worry about monsters in the closet left him feeling hagridden.
That doesn't prove that London is hagridden with vampires.

Dracula's Daughter (1936)

Synonyms

harrowed

vshagridden

1 7.7

Very upset and shocked after seeing or experiencing something terrible

focuses on persistent nightmares and oppressive unreasonable fears

hag-ridden

vshagridden

Archaic

9.9

Being troubled by bad dreams and strong fears

has identical meaning but is written without a hyphen

tormented

vshagridden

NSFW

7.0

Feeling very strong pain in the mind or body

refers to torment specifically from recurring nightmares and oppressive fears

Antonyms

untroubled

4 3.5

Calm and not worried about problems

comforted

1 2.1

Feeling less upset because someone is kind to you

How Troubled

tormented

NSFW

7.0

hagridden

Archaic

9.9

disturbed

37 3.8

haunted

8 5.1

anxious

201 2.7

uneasy

98 3.2

Surface Forms

hagridden positive

Morphology

hagridden = hag (transparent) = hag + ridden

Formed from 'hag' + the past-participial combining element '‑ridden' (as in 'guilt-ridden'), so the meaning 'affected/tormented by a hag' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Hagridden comes from an old folk idea that a hag (a witch) would 'ride' someone at night and give them bad dreams, and the -ridden part means 'controlled by'. So hagridden describes a person tormented by persistent nightmares or fears.