dread
Meaning of dread
noun
- Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
my visit to the doctor is filling me with dread
- Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
- Somebody or something dreaded.
- A person highly revered.
- Fury; dreadfulness.
- A Rastafarian.
- (chiefly in the plural) dreadlock
- To fear greatly.
- To anticipate with fear.
I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.
- To be in dread, or great fear.
- To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
- Terrible; greatly feared.
- Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.
Information about dread
- The plural form of dread is: dreads.
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Hyphenation of dread
dread
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- dread is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
dread synonyms
Meaning awful:
awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
Meaning apprehension:
apprehension, apprehensiveness
Meaning fear:
Translation of dread
- German: Schmerz, Pein, Qual, Au, Bestürzung
- French: douleur, consternation
- Portuguese: dor, consternação
- Spanish: dolor, consternación, espanto
- Italian: dolore, terrore, spavento, sbigottimento
Anagrams of dread
adder, adred, aredd, dared, Dedra, Dreda, Eddra, Erdda, readd
Words that rhyme with dread
Read, read, aread, Whitbread, beebread, blithebread, bread, cakebread, clapbread, cornbread, crispbread, embread, facebread, flatbread, frybread, gingerbread, inbread, laverbread, ryebread, shewbread, shortbread, showbread, sourbread, sowbread, spoonbread, sweetbread, swinebread, temsebread, wastelbread, waybread, cread, adread, bedread, misdread, predread, foreread, reread, proofread, unproofread, goldthread, interthread, misthread, multithread, packthread, rethread, thread, unthread, Viread, wellread, drumread
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