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Very unpleasant, serious, or shocking

Great fear or apprehension

Any imagined fear or threat, or a fear presumed larger than it really is

(often follows "pet") A personal dislike or source of irritation

A very unpleasant or frightening experience or prospect

A state or cause of gloom, suspicion, trouble, or worry

A strange, horrible, and often frightening being

Anticipate with great apprehension or fear

To put (hair) into dreadlocks

To regard with adoration and reverence, particularly for deities and gods

Have a strong aversion to

To be anxious or concerned about something in particular

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Adjective

Very unpleasant, serious, or shocking

like death warmed up

causing excitement

life-threatening

suggestive of evil

unfavourable^UK

dishonourable^UK

dishonorable^US

disadvantageous

beyond the pale

demoralizing^US

earth-shattering

demoralising^UK

Mephistophelian

beyond contempt

poverty-stricken

a load of pants

heart-wrenching

blood-and-thunder

phantasmagorical

beneath contempt

indescribably bad

indescribably wicked

beyond description

indescribably evil

extremely upsetting

full of hardship

highly improper

lowest of the low

too horrible for words

less-than-stellar

not to be borne

strictly for the birds

on collision course

stick out like sore thumb

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“People still shrink from the terrible word cancer, even if they themselves have not been diagnosed with this dread disease.”

Noun

Great fear or apprehension

apprehensiveness

butterflies in the stomach

sinking feeling

irrational fear

fear and trembling

prognostication

dissatisfaction

bee in one's bonnet

sneaking suspicion

feeling in bones

handwriting on wall

pins and needles

screaming abdabs

screaming habdabs

disillusionment

mid-life crisis

sense of foreboding

feeling in the bones

mental disturbance

overwhelming anxiety about

winds of change

feeling in your bones

having no use for

nervous tension

disconsolateness

downheartedness

lack of confidence

heaviness of heart

second thoughts

broken-heartedness

mental suffering

mistrustfulness

emotional suffering

butterflies in one's stomach

heavy-heartedness

heavyheartedness

trials and tribulations

reconsideration

living day to day

discombobulation

emotional strain

screaming meemies

demoralization^US

nervous excitement

heartbrokenness

unassertiveness

demoralisation^UK

loss of confidence

lack of enthusiasm

self-consciousness

clinical depression

one's black dog

postnatal depression

endogenous depression

slough of despond

reactive depression

discontentedness

distrustfulness

unconsolability

aches and pains

lack of self-confidence

bee in your bonnet

psychological block

pain in the rear

thorn in someone's side

pain in the backside

thorn in someone's flesh

pain in the neck

pain in the bum

fit of ill temper

fit of bad temper

Sturm und Drang

tender loving care

being rubbed up the wrong way

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“In common with all politicians, he has a dread of winter elections.”

Noun

Any imagined fear or threat, or a fear presumed larger than it really is

thorn in one's side

thorn in one's flesh

bane of one's life

pain in the bum

pain in the backside

pain in the neck

pain in the rear

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Noun

(often follows "pet") A personal dislike or source of irritation

bane of one's life

thorn in one's flesh

thorn in one's side

Noun

A very unpleasant or frightening experience or prospect

trials and tribulations

bane of one's life

uphill struggle

pain in the bum

pain in the backside

tough assignment

pain in the rear

pain in the neck

baptism of fire

a difficult experience

painful experience

a unpleasant experience

a frustrating experience

fatal attraction

unpleasant experience

source of irritation

source of annoyance

source of aggravation

thorn in your flesh

thorn in one's side

thorn in one's flesh

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Noun

A state or cause of gloom, suspicion, trouble, or worry

Noun

A strange, horrible, and often frightening being

mythical creature

fabulous creature

materialization^US

dehumanized being

malignant spirit

materialisation^UK

familiar spirit

incorporeal being

bump in the night

pain in the bum

pain in the backside

pain in the rear

pain in the neck

mischievous goblin

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Verb

Anticipate with great apprehension or fear

“When I worked for the Labour Party we used to dread Easter week more than any other.”

Verb

To put (hair) into dreadlocks

Verb

To regard with adoration and reverence, particularly for deities and gods

stand in awe of

regard with awe

be intimidated by

Verb

Have a strong aversion to

have a horror of

greatly dislike

be frightened of

be terrified of

be unable to bear

be unable to stand

have a strong aversion to

Verb

To be anxious or concerned about something in particular

be on tenterhooks

torment oneself

torture oneself

be in a tiz-woz

be on pins and needles

lose sleep over

stay the course

be in a state of agitation

be in a state of anxiety

be in a state of nervousness

concern oneself

get overwrought

get in a lather

go through the mill

get in a fluster

bite one's nails

have butterflies in one's stomach

be in a blue funk

wrestle with oneself

torment yourself

exercise oneself

torture yourself

distress yourself

eat one's heart out

carry a heavy load

get into a dither

distress oneself

get in a tiz-woz

be apprehensive

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