English adjective: dread | |||
1. | dread causing fear or dread or terror | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Synonyms | awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible | ||
Similar | alarming | ||
Antonyms | unalarming | ||
English noun: dread | |||
1. | dread (feeling) fearful expectation or anticipation | ||
Samples | The student looked around the examination room with apprehension. | ||
Synonyms | apprehension, apprehensiveness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | fear, fearfulness, fright | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | boding, chill, foreboding, gloom, gloominess, pall, premonition, presentiment, somberness, sombreness, suspense, trepidation | ||
English verb: dread | |||
1. | dread (emotion) be afraid or scared of; be frightened of | ||
Samples | I fear the winters in Moscow. We should not fear the Communists!. | ||
Examples | Sam cannot dread Sue | ||
Synonyms | fear | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | panic | ||