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What is another word for most dreadful?

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Adjective
Least good or favorable in comparison
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“Tipping it to her lips, she braced herself for the dreadful taste of whatever swamp water soldiers drank.”
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Superlative for shocking, especially in a manner tending to cause fear or dread
“The dreadful sight of Pan and the still more dreadful noise he made so frightened the sheep that they fled in all directions.”
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Superlative for significant or extreme in degree or intensity
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“I had to tell Richard I was unable to tolerate the dreadful pain any longer.”
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Superlative for causing distress, sadness or anxiety
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“The vizier laid before his master the dreadful news of a general revolt, both of his troops and provinces in the south.”
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Superlative for characterized by wickedness or brutality
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“The dreadful tyrant of cruel rod brings ruin upon himself by frightful deeds.”
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Superlative for very serious or urgent in nature
“It was only with the conviction she was deeply conflicted by some dreadful issue that I hung in there with her.”
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Superlative for having an ugly or frightening appearance
“Instead of recoiling in dismay from the dreadful and misshapen forms, a minority of observers began to view them with a sort of fearful fascination.”
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Superlative for to an absolute degree
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“I'm afraid I've made a dreadful mess of things, Gregory. I simply couldn't help myself.”
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Superlative for unreasonably or absurdly extreme in degree or extent
“In those dreadful early hours of the morning, when life ebbed to its lowest point, hope kept me going.”
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Superlative for inhumanly or outrageously evil or immorally wrong
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Superlative for having the feeling that one is about to vomit
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Superlative for disturbing in nature due to references to death or dying
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