meaning of dreadful
1. Full of dread or terror; fearful.
2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm.
3. Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.
4. 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
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Related Words
dreadful | dreadfully | dreadfulness |
