Synonyms for dread
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1. dread

   Alarm, according to its derivation all'arme, "to arms," is an arousing to meet and repel danger, and may be quite consistent with true courage. Affright and fright express sudden fear which, for the time at least, overwhelms courage. The sentinel discovers with alarm the sudden approach of the enemy; the unarmed villagers view it with affright. Apprehension, disquietude, dread, misgiving, and solicitude are in anticipation of danger; consternation, dismay, and terror are overwhelming fear, generally in the actual presence of that which is terrible, though these words also may have an anticipative force. Timidity is a quality, habit, or condition, a readiness to be affected with fear. A person of great timidity is constantly liable to needless alarm and even terror. Compare FEAR.

   Synonyms:
   affright, alarm, apprehension, consternation, dismay, disquietude, fear, fright, misgiving, panic, solicitude, terror, timidity

   Antonyms:
   assurance, calmness, confidence, repose, security

   Preposition:
   Alarm was felt in the camp, among the soldiers, at the news.

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1. dreadnoun

   Synonyms:
   fear, shuddering, terror, horror, alarm, intimidation, apprehension

   Antonyms:
   courage, confidence, welcome, assurance

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1. apprehension, apprehensiveness, dreadadjective

   fearful expectation or anticipation

   "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

   Synonyms:
   apprehension, pinch, savvy, collar, misgiving, arrest, taking into custody, understanding, catch, apprehensiveness, discernment

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

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

   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

3. fear, dreadverb

   be afraid or scared of; be frightened of

   "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"

   Synonyms:
   reverence, venerate, fear, revere

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

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1. dreadadjective

   Synonyms:
   frightful, terrible, horrible, dreadful

2. dreadadjective

   Synonyms:
   venerable, awful

3. dreadverb

   Synonyms:
   fear greatly

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1. dreadnoun

   Synonyms:
   apprehension, fear, awe (reverential fear)

2. dreadverb

   Synonyms:
   fear, apprehend

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1. List of paraphrases for "dread":

   blondie, redoubt, horror, fear, anguish, terror

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1. Desiree Bullock:

   Once you cut that hair off, you cut off your line to your ancestors, you cut off your lineage, you cut off everything, and just it's not an option... We don't consider them dreadlocks because we don't dread them we love them.

2. Mother Teresa, -- Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.:

   Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

3. Jane Webber:

   Dread is a combination of not knowing, fearing and terror, do you go pick up groceries ? Are gloves enough ? Should I touch the mail ? Your child sneezes. You're living in fear every moment.

4. Charlie Brown:

   I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.

5. Elizabeth Bowen:

   We have everything to dread from the dispossessed.