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1. awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible(adj)

   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"

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1. dreaded(Adjective)

   Causing fear, dread or terror

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1. Dreaded

   of Dread

Anagrams for dreaded »

1. readded

2. dead-red

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of dreaded in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of dreaded in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

1. Publilius Syrus:

   The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

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

3. Thomas Gill:

   Serious fall injuries are one of the most dreaded and devastating conditions experienced by older persons.

4. 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.

5. Author Unknown:

   It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

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