Meaning & Definition of Dread in English
English⟶
Dread
/drɛd/
noun
1. Fearful expectation or anticipation
- "The student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
synonym:
- apprehension,
- apprehensiveness,
- dread
verb
1. Be afraid or scared of
- Be frightened of
- "I fear the winters in moscow"
- "We should not fear the communists!"
synonym:
- fear,
- dread
adjective
1. 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"
synonym:
- awful,
- dire,
- direful,
- dread(a),
- dreaded,
- dreadful,
- fearful,
- fearsome,
- frightening,
- horrendous,
- horrific,
- terrible
Examples of using
My writing desk, a place of dread: an incredible number of incredibly useful drawers - combined with incredibly little legspace.
They live in constant dread of floods.