About The Word Dreadful
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Dreadful
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What's The Definition Of Dreadful?
[adj] causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
[adj] exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" [adj] very unpleasant Synonyms | Synonyms for Dreadful: abominable | alarming | atrocious | awful | bad | dire | direful | dread(a) | dreaded | fearful | fearsome | frightening | horrendous | horrific | painful | terrible | unpleasant | unspeakable Related Terms | Find terms related to Dreadful: abominable | alarming | appalling | arrant | astounding | atrocious | august | awe-inspiring | awesome | awful | awfully | bad | baneful | base | beastly | beneath contempt | big | Bildungsroman | blameworthy | brutal | comic novel | contemptible | damned | deadly | demonic | deplorable | despicable | detective novel | detestable | devilish | diabolical | dime novel | dire | direful | disgusting | dread | dreaded | dreadfully | egregious | enormous | epistolary novel | erotic novel | estimable | evil | exceedingly | feared | fearful | fearsome | fell | fetid | fiendish | filthy | flagitious | flagrant | forbidding | formidable | foul | frightening | frightful | fulsome | ghastly | ghoulish | Gothic novel | grievous | grim | grisly | gross | gruesome | hateful | heinous | hideous | historical novel | honorable | horrendous | horrible | horrid | horrific | horrifying | howling | infamous | iniquitous | lamentable | loathsome | lousy | macabre | malefic | maleficent | malevolent | monstrous | morbid | nasty | nefarious | noisome | notorious | nouvelle | novel | novel of character | novel of ideas | novel of incident | novel of manners | novel of sensibility | novelette | novella | obnoxious | odious | offensive | outrageous | penny dreadful | picaresque novel | pitiable | pitiful | pornographic novel | problem novel | proletarian novel | propaganda novel | psychological novel | rank | rattling | redoubtable | regional novel | regrettable | remarkably | repelling | reprehensible | repugnant | repulsive | reverend | revolting | river novel | roman | roman a clef | roman-fleuve | rotten | rousing | sad | satirical novel | scandalous | scary | schlock | schrecklich | science-fiction novel | scurvy | sentimental novel | shabby | shameful | shilling | shilling shocker | shocking | shoddy | short story | short-short | sociological novel | sordid | squalid | storiette | stream-of-consciousness novel | strikingly | terrible | terrific | thesis novel | thumping | time-honored | too bad | tragic | tremendous | unclean | unspeakable | venerable | vignette | vile | villainous | whacking | wicked | woeful | worshipful | worst | worthless | wretched See Also | Dreadful In Webster's Dictionary \Dread"ful\, a.
1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. [Obs.] ``With dreadful
heart.'' --Chaucer.
2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible;
as, a dreadful storm. `` Dreadful gloom.'' --Milton.
For all things are less dreadful than they seem.
--Wordsworth.
3. Inspiring awe or reverence; awful. [Obs.] ``God's dreadful
law.'' --Shak.
Syn: Fearful; frightful; terrific; terrible; horrible;
horrid; formidable; tremendous; awful; venerable. See
{Frightful}.
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