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Princeton's WordNet

  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"

Wiktionary

  1. dreadedadjective

    Causing fear, dread or terror

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  1. dreaded

    Dreaded refers to something that is highly feared, intimidated or causing great distress, anxiety, or unease. It is typically used to describe a situation, event or object that a person greatly fears or wants to avoid. It implies strong worry or apprehension towards impending, undesirable situation or activity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dreaded

    of Dread

Anagrams for dreaded »

  1. dead-red

  2. readded

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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

Examples of dreaded in a Sentence

  1. 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.

  2. John Adams:

    There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

  3. 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.

  4. TSM_SweetPotato6:

    Shut up dreaded!!!”

  5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

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

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