Definitions for dreadful
ˈdrɛd fəldread·ful

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

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"

2. atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable(adj)

   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. dreadful(adj)

   very unpleasant

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. dreadful(Noun)

   A shocking or sensational crime.

2. dreadful(Noun)

   A shocking or sensational report of a crime.

3. dreadful(Adjective)

   Causing dread; bad.

Origin: From dredful, dredeful, equivalent to .

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Dreadful(adj)

   full of dread or terror; fearful

2. Dreadful(adj)

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

3. Dreadful(adj)

   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 ?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Jacqueline Job:

   Ignorance is a dangerous and dreadful disease.

2. Sophocles:

   How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong

3. Sophocles, Antigone:

   How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

   There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

5. Sophocles:

   How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth

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