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Textual thesaurus for "dread"

(adj) horrendous, horrific, awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, frightening, fearful, fearsome, terrible

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


(noun) apprehension, apprehensiveness

fearful expectation or anticipation

the student looked around the examination room with apprehension


(verb) fear

be afraid or scared of; be frightened of

I fear the winters in Moscow; We should not fear the Communists!