2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dreadful \Dread"ful\, a.
1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. [Obs.] ``With dreadful
heart.'' --Chaucer.
2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible;
as a dreadful storm. `` Dreadful gloom.'' --Milton.
For all things are less dreadful than they seem.
--Wordsworth.
3. Inspiring awe or reverence; awful. [Obs.] ``God's dreadful
law.'' --Shak.
Syn: Fearful; frightful; terrific; terrible; horrible;
horrid; formidable; tremendous; awful; venerable. See
{Frightful}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dreadful
adj 1: 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" [syn: {awful}, {dire}, {direful}, {dread(a)}, {dreaded},
{fearful}, {fearsome}, {frightening}, {horrendous}, {horrific},
{terrible}]
2: 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" [syn: {atrocious},
{abominable}, {awful}, {painful}, {terrible}, {unspeakable}]
3: very unpleasant
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