Definition of dreadful

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Dreadful (a.) Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm..

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Astonishment :: Astonishment (n.) The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement..
Dread :: Dread (n.) Fury; dreadfulness.
Death :: Death (v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
Dreadful :: Dreadful (a.) Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm..
Dire :: Dire (superl.) Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
Fearful :: Fearful (a.) Inspiring fear or awe; exciting apprehension or terror; terrible; frightful; dreadful.
Awe :: Awe (n.) The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence..
Monstrous :: Monstrous (a.) Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful..
Horrible :: Horrible (a.) Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder..
Portentous :: Portentous (a.) Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size..
Direful :: Direful (a.) Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day..
Dreadfully :: Dreadfully (adv.) In a dreadful manner; terribly.
Horribly :: Horribly (adv.) In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; terribly.
Fear :: Fear (n.) That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness..
Grisly :: Grisly (a.) Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter..
Horrid :: Horrid (a.) Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive..
Dreadful :: Dreadful (a.) Full of dread or terror; fearful.
Horrisonous :: Horrisonous (a.) Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.
Dread :: Dread (a.) Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
Ghastly :: Ghastly (superl.) Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
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