Synonyms for dreaded
dread·ed

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1. awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terribleadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

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1. ill-intentioned

   Submitted by rinat on August 14, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "dreaded":

   fearsome, formidable, daunting, terrible

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1. David Barker:

   In the short run, his numbers might get even worse if he then does not decide to shut things down again — because he will lose favor with people on his own side who currently support him, in the long run, though, shutting things down will make him even more unpopular, because it would tank the economy again — producing the dreaded two-headed monster of stagflation.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

3. Trainer Bob Baffert:

   The dreaded one hole, it's not a good feeling, when Santa Anita Derby winner Dortmund drew the eight, I was happy with that.

4. John Adams:

   There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

5. Author Unknown:

   It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.