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dread
  1. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
  2. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
  3. Somebody or something dreaded.
  4. (obsolete) A person highly revered.
  5. (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
  6. A Rastafarian.
  7. (plural) dreadlock
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “Ra has a perennial dread of the realm of the dead. He spends half his time voyaging through its bleakest, blackest regions, and its lightlessness distresses and repels him.”
      “It was a personal dread which she related to her religion, to the vapor of her prayers in that cold room, a space wrapped in stone and silence and darkness.”
dreadful
  1. A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
  2. A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
  3. A shocking or sensational crime.
dreadfulness
  1. The characteristic of being dreadful.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Any inclination to take any of this seriously is rapidly seen off by the kitschy dreadfulness of much of the writing.”
      “That's not to say it's a total success, it is a little camp and so doesn't quite replicate the dreadfulness of the novel.”
      “After all, as both a former and prospective host of MTV's Punk'd, they obviously have an affinity with abject dreadfulness.”
dreads
dreadedness
  1. Quality of being dreaded.
dreadness
  1. Quality of being dread.
dreads
dreader
  1. One who dreads.
dreadfulnesses
dreadfuls
  1. plural of dreadful
  2. Examples:
    1. “Go back two centuries ago and remember how dime novels and penny dreadfuls were no sooner evoked than evicted from church life.”
      “He was celebrated on stage and in penny dreadfuls, and took on a new folkloric persona as a waylayer of solitary travellers.”
      “From what she could gather, there had been more scandal in that village during the past two months than would fill a dozen penny dreadfuls.”
dreaders
  1. plural of dreader
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