Dread

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To be in terror of.
  • v. To anticipate with alarm, distaste, or reluctance: dreaded the long drive home.
  • v. Archaic To hold in awe or reverence.
  • verb-intransitive. To be very afraid.
  • n. Profound fear; terror.
  • n. Fearful or distasteful anticipation. See Synonyms at fear.
  • n. An object of fear, awe, or reverence.
  • n. Archaic Awe; reverence.
  • adj. Causing terror or fear: a dread disease.
  • adj. Inspiring awe: the dread presence of the headmaster.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To fear greatly.
  • v. To anticipate with fear.
  • n. A great fear.
  • n. Somebody or something dreaded.
  • n. A Rastafarian.
  • n. dreadlock
  • adj. Terrible; greatly feared.
  • adj. Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
  • verb-intransitive. To be in dread, or great fear.
  • n. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
  • n. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
  • n. An object of terrified apprehension.
  • n. A person highly revered.
  • n. Fury; dreadfulness.
  • n. Doubt.
  • adj. Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
  • adj. Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To fear in a great degree; be in shrinking apprehension or expectation of: used chiefly with reference to the future: as, to dread death.
  • To cause to fear; alarm; frighten.
  • To venerate; hold in respectful awe.
  • To be in great fear, especially of something which may come to pass.
  • n. Great fear or apprehension; tremulous anticipation of or repugnance to the happening of something: as, the dread of evil; the dread of suffering; the dread of the divine displeasure.
  • n. Awe; fear united with respect; terror.
  • n. A cause or object of apprehension; the person or the thing dreaded.
  • n. Doubt.
  • Dreaded; such as to excite great fear or apprehension; terrible; frightful.
  • That is to be dreaded or feared; awful; solemn; venerable: as, dread sovereign; a dread tribunal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. causing fear or dread or terror
  • v. be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
  • n. fearful expectation or anticipation
  • Equivalent
    alarming   
    Verb Form
    dreaded    dreades    dreadfulness    dreading    dreadness    dreads   
    Cross Reference
    Hyponym
    panic   
    Form
    dreaded    dreading    dreadable    dreadworthy   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dismay    awe    terror    reverence    apprehension    horror    affright    fear    fury    dreadfulness   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ed    Fed    Fred    Freda    Ged    Head    Jed    Med    Ned    Read   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fear    apprehension    anxiety    anger    sadness    awe    suspicion    shame    dismay    panic