dreadful

Plural: dreadfuls

Adjective Satellite

• causing fear or dread or terror
  • "a dreadful storm"
• exceptionally bad or displeasing
  • "dreadful manners"
• very unpleasant

Adj

• Full of something causing dread, whether
• Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky.
• Full of something causing dread, whether
• Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier).
• Full of something causing dread, whether
• Awesome, awe-inspiring, causing feelings of reverence.
• Full of dread, whether
• Scared, afraid, frightened.
• Full of dread, whether
• Timid, easily frightened.
• Full of dread, whether
• Reverential, full of pious awe.

Adv

• Dreadfully.

Noun

• A sensational or terrifying publication, often a cheap story.
• A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
• A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
• A shocking or sensational crime.

Examples

• Reading a dreadful before a Scrabble game usually put me in a grim mood, affecting my plays.

Synonyms

abominable, atrocious, awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, painful, terrible, unspeakable, bad

Anagrams of dreadful