dreadful
IPA: drˈɛdfʌɫ
noun
- A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
- A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
- A shocking or sensational crime.
adjective
- Full of something causing dread, whether
- Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky.
- (hyperbolic) Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier).
- (obsolete) Awesome, awe-inspiring, causing feelings of reverence.
- (obsolete) Full of dread, whether
- Scared, afraid, frightened.
- Timid, easily frightened.
- Reverential, full of pious awe.
adverb
- (informal) Dreadfully.
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Examples of "dreadful" in Sentences
- The fight was sore and dreadful.
- Conditions in the prisons are dreadful.
- I'm sorry for being a dreadful spoilsport.
- The dreadful menace had the desired effect.
- 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.