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Synonyms for dreaded
dread·ed
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Princeton's WordNet
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 Contribution
ill-intentioned
Submitted by rinat on August 14, 2019
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "dreaded":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#6918 | terrible | |
#22561 | formidable | |
#22594 | daunting | |
#27446 | dreaded | |
#51495 | fearsome |
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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.
I dreaded falling in love — but I knew this would be my last, it better be. I’m happy.
Shut up dreaded!!!”
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.
Serious fall injuries are one of the most dreaded and devastating conditions experienced by older persons.
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