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adj. Inspiring dread; terrible.

adj. Extremely unpleasant; distasteful or shocking: dreadful table manners; this dreadful heat.

adj. Causing dread; bad.

n. A shocking or sensational crime.

n. A shocking or sensational report of a crime.

adj. Full of dread or terror; fearful.

adj. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible.

adj. Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.

I. Full of dread or fear.

Full of respect, honor, or veneration.

Exciting or attended by great dread, fear, or terror; terrible; formidable; direful: as, a dreadful storm; a dreadful invasion.

Awful; venerable; awe-inspiring.

Synonyms Fearful, Frightful, etc. (see awful); terrific, horrible, horrid, dire, direful, tremendous.

n. That which is fearful or terrible: used only in the phrases penny dreadful, shilling dreadful, to denote a tale of vulgar sensationalism sold at a small price, or a cheap sensational newspaper or periodical.

adj. very unpleasant

adj. causing fear or dread or terror

adj. exceptionally bad or displeasing

"It would be dreadful, _dreadful_, if Pegler began seeing ghosts, and turning hysterical."

unpleasant    alarming    bad   

penny dreadful   

tremendous    formidable    horrid    frightful    terrible    terrific    fearful    horrible    venerable    awful   

terrible    horrid    ghastly    extraordinary    appal