What does dread mean?
Definitions for dread
drɛddread
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word dread.
Princeton's WordNet
apprehension, apprehensiveness, dreadadjective
fearful expectation or anticipation
"the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
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"
fear, dreadverb
be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
"I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
Wiktionary
dreadnoun
A great fear.
dreadnoun
Somebody or something dreaded.
dreadnoun
A Rastafarian.
dreadnoun
dreadlock
dreadverb
To fear greatly.
dreadverb
To anticipate with fear.
I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.
dreadadjective
Terrible; greatly feared.
dreadadjective
Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.
Etymology: dreden, from drædan, aphetic form of adrædan, ondrædan; compare with Dutch ontraden, from and- + rædan. Akin to intratan. More at read.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Dreadadjective
Etymology: dræd, Saxon.
That e’er this tongue of mine,
That laid the sentence of dread banishment
On yond’ proud man, should take it off again
With words of sooth! William Shakespeare, Richard II.It cannot be, but thou hast murther’d him:
So should a murtherer look, so dread, so grim. William Shakespeare.To be expos’d against the warring winds?
To stand against the deep dread bolted thunder. William Shakespeare.Amaze
Be sure, and terrour, seiz’d the rebel host,
When, coming towards them, so dread they saw
The bottom of the mountains upward turn’d. John Milton, P. Lost.Thou, attended gloriously from heav’n,
Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
The summoning archangels to proclaim
Thy dread tribunal. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iii. l. 323.From this descent
Celestial virtues rising, will appear
More glorious and more dread than from no fall. John Milton.DREADnoun
Etymology: drad, Saxon.
Think’st thou that duty shall have dread to speak,
When pow’r to flatt’ry bows? To plainness honour
Is bound, when majesty to folly falls. William Shakespeare, King Lear.But was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience, from the secret dread of divine displeasure, and of the vengeance of another world? John Tillotson, Serm. 4.
If our fears can be awakened with the dread of evil, he has armed his laws with the terrour of eternal misery. John Rogers.
The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth. Gen. ix. 2.
To thee, of all our good the sacred spring;
To thee, our dearest dread; to thee, our softer king. Matthew Prior.To Dreadverb
To fear in an excessive degree.
Etymology: from the noun.
You may despise that which terrifies others, and which yet all, even those who most dread it, must in a little time encounter. William Wake.
To Dreadverb
To be in fear.
Dread not, neither be afraid of them. Deut. i. 8.
ChatGPT
dread
Dread is a strong feeling of fear or apprehension about something that may happen in the future. It's often associated with anxiety or alarm related to anticipating or expecting a negative, unpleasant, or dangerous event or situation. This emotion can be both short-term, such as fear of an upcoming exam or long-term, like worrying about a potential health issue.
Webster Dictionary
Dreadverb
to fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension
Dreadverb
to be in dread, or great fear
Dreadnoun
great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror
Dreadnoun
reverential or respectful fear; awe
Dreadnoun
an object of terrified apprehension
Dreadnoun
a person highly revered
Dreadnoun
fury; dreadfulness
Dreadnoun
doubt; as, out of dread
Dreadadjective
exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful
Dreadadjective
inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal
Etymology: [AS. drdan, in comp.; akin to OS. drdan, OHG. trtan, both only in comp.]
Wikidata
Dread
Dread is a live album by Living Colour released only in Japan in 1994. It contains live recordings from the Stain tour, an acoustic radio session and two B-sides. The live recordings were recorded on 7 June 1993 at Le Zenith in Paris, France and at a concert on 24 April 1993 at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago. The radio session was recorded for a Dutch radio show called Countdown Café in February 1993. Both of the B-sides were recorded during the Stain sessions.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Dread
dred, n. fear: awe: the objects that excite fear.—adj. dreaded: inspiring great fear or awe.—v.t. to regard with terror: to regard with reverence.—adjs. Dread′able; Dread′ful, (orig.) full of dread: producing great fear or awe: terrible.—adv. Dread′fully.—n. Dread′fulness.—adj. Dread′less, free from dread: intrepid.—adv. Dread′lessly.—n. Dread′lessness.—adj. Dread′ly (Spens.) dreadful.—ns. Dread′naught, Dread′nought, one who dreads nothing—hence, a garment of thick cloth defending against the weather: the cloth of which it is made.—Penny dreadful, a cheap sensational serial or tale, usually bloody in subject and vulgar in tone. [M. E. dreden—A.S. on-drǽdan, to fear; Ice. ondréda, Old High Ger. in-tratan, to be afraid.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
DREAD
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Dread is ranked #133048 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Dread surname appeared 127 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Dread.
86.6% or 110 total occurrences were Black.
6.3% or 8 total occurrences were White.
4.7% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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Anagrams for dread »
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adder
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of dread in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of dread in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of dread in a Sentence
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.
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
We have everything to dread from the dispossessed.
This is probably going to be disappointing for you, but I am not and have never been Dread Pirate Roberts, the investigation reached that conclusion already - this is why I am not the one sitting during the Silk Road trial, and I can only feel defense attorney Joshua Dratel trying everything he can to point the attention away from his client.
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- الفزعArabic
- боязън, опасявам се, страхувам се, страхBulgarian
- témerCatalan, Valencian
- hrůza, děsit se, hrozit se, mít hrůzu, zhrozit se, obávat seCzech
- befürchten, Furcht, fürchten, AngstGerman
- φόβοςGreek
- temor, temerSpanish
- pelko, odottaa pelolla, kauhu, kauhistus, pelätäFinnish
- craindre, crainte, redouterFrench
- uabhas, eagal, uamhann, sgrath, oilltScottish Gaelic
- भयHindi
- rettegés, rettegHungarian
- սարսափ, ահ, սոսկումArmenian
- ketakutanIndonesian
- temere, timoreItalian
- 恐怖Japanese
- ಭೀತಿKannada
- timor, metus, pavor, paveo, vereorLatin
- whakarikaMāori
- vrees, schrik hebben, doodsangst, bang zijn, vrezen, gevreesdeDutch
- strachPolish
- temer, terror, terrível, temorPortuguese
- sperietoare, temere, frică, teamă, temeRomanian
- бояться, опасаться, боязнь, страхRussian
- முகாந்தரத்திலும்Tamil
- భయపడటంTelugu
- กลัวThai
- 恐惧Chinese
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