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   What does dreadful mean?

   • Commonly Confused Words Quiz Vol. 2 A quiz to (peak/peek/pique) your interest. The meaning of DREADFUL is inspiring dread : causing great and oppressive fear. How to use dreadful in a sentence.

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   Where did the word dreadful come from?

   • The first records of dreadful come from around 1200. It comes from the Middle English dredful. The word dread can be a noun meaning “fear” or a verb meaning “to fear.” The suffix -ful, means “full of,” makes it into an adjective. Dreadful is one of the many words based on terms that relate to fear that are now simply used to mean “really bad.”

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   What is dreadful news?

   • Something dreadful clearly happened but it is unclear what. Now a dreadful time to turn their remains over to a sealed vault. She says people talked about it something dreadful. But the radio also brought dreadful news. If you say that something is dreadful, you mean that it is very unpleasant or very poor in quality.

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   What does Jane look dreadful mean?

   • Jane looked dreadful (= looked ill or tired). The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words. Try it for free as part of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app [only before noun] used to emphasize how bad something is synonym terrible He’s a dreadful snob. She's making a dreadful mess of things.

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   DREADFUL definition: 1. causing fear, shock, or suffering: 2. of very low quality or very unpleasant: 3. used to…. Learn more.

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     DREADFUL meaning: 1. causing fear, shock, or suffering: 2....

   • Dreadful: Korean Translation

     dreadful translate: 끔찍한. Learn more in the Cambridge...

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   • Znaczenie Dreadful, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary

     DREADFUL definicja: 1. causing fear, shock, or suffering: 2....

   • Dreadful in Russian

     DREADFUL translate: ужасный, страшный . Learn more in the...

   • Dreadful in Polish

     dreadful translate: okropny, straszny, straszny, okropny....

   • Dreadful in Japanese

     DREADFUL translate: ひどい, 恐（おそ）ろしい. Learn more in the...

   • Portuguese Translation

     DREADFUL translate: terrível [masculine-feminine]. Learn...

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   If you say that something is dreadful, you mean that it is very bad or unpleasant, or very poor in quality. They told us the dreadful news. My financial situation is dreadful.

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   adjective. causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm. Synonyms: dire, frightful. inspiring awe or reverence. extremely bad, unpleasant, or ugly: dreadful cooking; a dreadful hat.

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   Dread means fear or anxiety. The adjective dreadful can describe something truly devastating, like the dreadful aftermath of a tornado, or something that's awful on a more personal level, like a dreadful blind date. If it's bad, fearsome, or unpleasant, you can call it dreadful.

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   adj. 1. extremely disagreeable, shocking, or bad: what a dreadful play. 2. (intensifier): this is a dreadful waste of time. 3. causing dread; terrifying. 4. archaic inspiring awe. ˈdreadfulnessn.

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   1. If you say that something is dreadful, you mean that it is very bad or unpleasant, or very poor in quality. [...] 2. Dreadful is used to emphasize the degree or extent of something bad. [emphasis] [...] 3. If someone looks or feels dreadful, they look or feel very ill, tired, or upset. [...]