Definitions for dreadful
ˈdrɛd fəldread·ful

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

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"

2. atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakableadjective

   exceptionally bad or displeasing

   "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"

3. dreadfuladjective

   very unpleasant

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dreadfulnoun

   A shocking or sensational crime.

2. dreadfulnoun

   A shocking or sensational report of a crime.

3. dreadfuladjective

   Causing dread; bad.

4. Etymology: From dredful, dredeful, equivalent to.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dreadfulnoun

   Terrible; frightful; formidable.

   Etymology: dread and full.

   Thy love, still arm’d with fate,
   Is dreadful as thy hate. George Granville.

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1. dreadful

   Dreadful is an adjective that describes something extremely bad, unpleasant, or upsetting, causing fear or great and intense concern. It is often used to refer to situations, events, or conditions that are particularly awful or causing great distress.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dreadfuladjective

   full of dread or terror; fearful

2. Dreadfuladjective

   inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm

3. Dreadfuladjective

   inspiring awe or reverence; awful

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'dreadful' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3528

2. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'dreadful' in Adjectives Frequency: #777

How to pronounce dreadful?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Veena

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dreadful in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dreadful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of dreadful in a Sentence

1. Hendrik Willem van Loon:

   The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership – who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

2. Jane Austen:

   What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

3. Ben Stiller:

   It's one thing to see this destruction on TV or on social networks. Another thing is to see it all with your own eyes. That's a lot more shocking, what you saw in Irpin is definitely dreadful. But it is even worse to just imagine what is happening in the settlements that are still under temporary occupation in the east.

4. Maddy Boteler:

   What’s affecting us the most is that we are not hearing anything. It’s just dreadful, just sitting there waiting for the phone to ring, sowe aretrying to just stand in fate and that we are going to get the phone call soon that he is foundsafeand he is alive.

5. Simon Cowell:

   I'd accept an honour but I don't think I'm likely to get one. The Queen once described me as a dreadful man

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dreadful
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dreadful
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=dreadful
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dreadful