dread
IPA: drˈɛd
noun
- Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
- Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
- Somebody or something dreaded.
- (obsolete) A person highly revered.
- (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
- A Rastafarian.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) Clipping of dreadlock. [A single strand of dreadlocks.]
- (military, nautical, historical, slang) Clipping of dreadnought. [(military, nautical, historical) A battleship, especially of the World War I era, in which most of the firepower is concentrated in large guns that are of the same caliber.]
verb
- (transitive) To fear greatly.
- To anticipate with fear.
- (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.
- (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
adjective
- Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded.
- (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.
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Examples of "dread" in Sentences
- She is filled with dread.
- The fight was sore and dreadful.
- The scope of the dread is narrow.
- Conditions in the prisons are dreadful.
- I'm sorry for being a dreadful spoilsport.
- The dreadful menace had the desired effect.
- It's one of the dreaded intermittent faults.
- It reads like a penny dreadful amateur pamphleteer.
- Actually, the Children of the Dreadful Night are kind of weird.
- However, the current state of health in the Philippines is dreadful.