Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun incubus

3 senses of incubus

Sense 1
incubus -- (a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women)
       => devil, fiend, demon, daemon, daimon -- (an evil supernatural being)

Sense 2
nightmare, incubus -- (a situation resembling a terrifying dream)
       => situation -- (a complex or critical or unusual difficulty; "the dangerous situation developed suddenly"; "that's quite a situation"; "no human situation is simple")

Sense 3
incubus -- (someone who depresses or worries others)
       => unpleasant person, disagreeable person -- (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)