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dread·ed

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  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"

    Antonyms:
    unalarming

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ill-intentioned

    Submitted by rinat on August 14, 2019  

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "dreaded":

    fearsome, formidable, daunting, terrible

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#6918terrible
#22561formidable
#22594daunting
#27446dreaded
#51495fearsome

How to use dreaded in a sentence?

  1. Naim Maadad:

    The goal is to encourage people to go in for the vaccination and incentivize those who volunteer for doing their bit in the fight to stop the spread of the dreaded virus.

  2. Rupert Murdoch:

    I dreaded falling in love — but I knew this would be my last, it better be. I’m happy.

  3. TSM_SweetPotato6:

    Shut up dreaded!!!”

  4. David Barker:

    In the short run, his numbers might get even worse if he then does not decide to shut things down again — because he will lose favor with people on his own side who currently support him, in the long run, though, shutting things down will make him even more unpopular, because it would tank the economy again — producing the dreaded two-headed monster of stagflation.

  5. Thomas Gill:

    Serious fall injuries are one of the most dreaded and devastating conditions experienced by older persons.


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