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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

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  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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#6918terrible
#22561formidable
#22594daunting
#27446dreaded
#51495fearsome

How to use dreaded in a sentence?

  1. Naim Maadad:

    The goal is to encourage people to go in for the vaccination and incentivize those who volunteer for doing their bit in the fight to stop the spread of the dreaded virus.

  2. TSM_SweetPotato6:

    Shut up dreaded!!!”

  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. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

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


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