Dread

Definition: Dread

Dread

Adjective

1. 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".

Noun

1. Fearful expectation or anticipation: "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension".

Verb

1. Be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dread" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Dread

Fear

Inspiring fear; Verb: alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous; (danger); portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire, direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible, horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting; (painful); Gorgonian.

Fright; affright, affrightment; boof alarm, dread, awe, terror, horror, dismay, consternation, panic, scare, stampede.

Crosswords: Dread

One day I'll fly away leave all this to yesterday. Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

No one would surrender to the Dread Pirate Westley (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

Do you experience feelings of dread in your basement or attic (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

I don't fear you Michael, I just dread you. (The Godfather: Part III; writing credit: Mario Puzo; Francis Ford Coppola)

'Cause for all their hard work, hearing their names fills us with dread. Their names make us sick (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut)

I dread the thought of our very first kiss (First Date; performing artist: Blink-182)

Oh my goodness, danger, trouble, dread, (Code Red; performing artist: Prince)

The Dread Inheritance (1913)

Broken Lizard's Club Dread (2003)

Dread Beat an' Blood (1979)

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Books

• Dread Champion (reference)

• Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari (reference)

• Hairlocking: Everything You Need to Know: African, Dread and Nubian Locks (reference)

• Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis (reference)

• Secrets of the Dread Realms and Dungeon Master's Screen (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Dread (reference)

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Music

• Natty Dread [Expanded] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

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Her eyes sought mine, full of a questioning dread. Credit: Library of Congress.

Drive begins to bar U.S. Communist party from state ballots. (News item) Scientists still unable to explain elephants' pathological dread of mice (News item). Credit: Library of Congress.

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I do not believe we should all have slept so soundly had the positions been reversed and if some Communist or neo-Fascist State monopolized for the time being these dread agencies. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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And this belief produced another dread.

And darkly fell her answer dread Upon his unresisting head, Like half a hundredweight of lead

It was with great astonishment, and with a strange, inexplicable dread, that as he looked, he saw this bell begin to swing

The sensitive clergyman shrunk, with nervous dread, from the light missile

Such was the dread with which the Thenardiess inspired her, that she did not dare to go without the bucket of water

This furious music allayed his dread and, leaning against the windowledge, he let his eyelids close again

You cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and fun of dread.

Their apprehensions arise from several changes they dread in the celestial bodies

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Health

But the relief people feel at the end of an attack is usually mixed with dread as they await a recurrence. (references)

Peptic ulcer disease is a major health problem in the United States that affects more than 4 million people each year. Bleeding is one of the most dread complications of peptic ulcer. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "dread": be dread beat ♦ be in dread of ♦ dread high bit disease ♦ dread Questionmark Disease. Additional references.

Beginning with "dread": Dread-bolted, dread-ful, dread-making, dread-swinging.

Albanian

druhem (be shy, boggle, dither, doubt), druaj (apprehend, be shy, doubt, fear), trembem (funk, get the wind up, give the willies, quail), tmerrohem (be horrified), tmerr (consternation, horror, riding-hag, terror), person i frikshëm, gjë e frikshme, frikësohem (be afraid, be frightened, be horrified, frighten), frikë (affright, apprehension, cowardice, dismay, doubt, fear, fright, habdabs, jim-jams, phobia, scare, shake). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فزع (appal, appall, be scared, dismay, panic, scare, skittish), ‏مفزع (appallingly, awful, dreadful, frightening, frightful, horrible, sanctuary, startling, terrible), ‏موقع الرهبة في النفس, ‏خوف (browbeat, bully, fear, fright, frighten, frightfulness, give a scare, horror, panic, put the wind up, scare, terror, trepidation), ‏جزع قلق, ‏أرهب (alarm, browbeat, buffalo, bulldoze, bully, daunt, horrify, overawe, shoot up, terrify, terrorize), ‏رهبة (horror). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страх (alarm, apprehension, dismay, fear, fright, funk, horror, terror), ужас (abhorrence, atrocity, fear, fright, frightfulness, horror, monstrosity, recoil, scare, terror). (various references)

Chinese 

非常害怕 , 恐懼 (fear), 憚 (dislike, exhausted, fear), 忌惮. (various references)

Czech

dìsit se, dìs (frightfulness, nightmare), strach (alarm, apprehension, dribbler, fear, fright, tremor), lekat se, hrùza (awe, fright, horror, nightmare, terror). (various references)

Danish

frygt (fright), angst (agony, anguish, fear, fright). (various references)

Farsi 

وحشت (Abhorrence, Awe, Fray, Fright, Horror, Jitters, Panic, Terror), ترس (Awful, Dismay, Fray, Horror, Misgiving), بیم (Awe, Care, Misgiving, Phobia, Qualm, Scare, Scruple, Scrupulosity). (various references)

Finnish

pelko (apprehension, fear, fright), kammota, kammo (abhorrence, horror). (various references)

French

terrible (dreadful), terreur, redoutable (dreadful), peur, faire peur, faire craindre, effroi, crainte, épouvante. (various references)

German

Furcht (apprehensibility, fear), fürchten (be afraid of, fear, to fear, tremble). (various references)

Greek 

φόβοσ (affright, apprehension, consternation, dismay, fear, fearfulness, fright, funk, misgiving, panic, scare, timorousness), φοβούμαι (cower, fear), τρόμοσ (consternation, dismay, funk, quake, terror, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפיל אימ�" (dreadful), ירא�" (awe, fear), לפחו�" (be afraid, fear, funk), לחרו�" (be afraid, be anxious, be worried), ל�"או�' (be anxious, be concerned, fear, fret, worry), פח�" (awe, consternation, dismay, fear, fright, terror), אימת�" (fear), אימ�" (alarm, awe, fear, luridness, menace, terror), חר�"�" (alarm, anxiety, horror, luridness, trepidation), � ורא (bloody, damned, dire, fearful, frightful, hellish, shocking, terrible, terrific, unholy). (various references)

Hungarian

rettegés (fear, horror, psychoses, psychosis, terror), félelem (affright, apprehension, awe, dismay, fear, funk, phobia, willies), tisztelet (adoration, awe, cult, esteem, honor, honour, regard, respect, reverence, tribute, veneration), rettegett (dreaded, dreadful), rémületes ember, rémületes dolog, nagyrabecsülés (appreciation, reverence), ijesztő dolog, ijedtség (affright, alarm, fright, shock, shy, turn). (various references)

Indonesian

takut (afraid, apprehensive, dastard, scary), ketakutan (apprehension, cower, scare). (various references)

Italian

timore (alarm, apprehension, awe, fear, fright, funk, misgiving), terrore (panic, scare, terror), temere (apprehend, be afraid of, eschew, fear), paura (afraid, anguish, apprehensibility, distress, fear, fright, funk, scare). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

恐怖 (be afraid, dismay, terror). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうふ (be afraid, dismay, godfather, terror), ゆうく (apprehension, distress, fear, sorrow, trouble). (various references)

Korean 

공포 (Fear, horror, Promulgating, Promulgation, terror). (various references)

Manx

scoagh (horror, terror), owan (fright), atchim (apprehension, awe, fear, fright, scare, terror), aggle (afraid, awe, fear, fright, timidity, windy). (various references)

Norwegian

skrekk (fright), frykt (agony, anguish, fear, fright). (various references)

Pig Latin

eaddray.(various references)

Portuguese

veneração (cult, regard, reverence, veneration, worship), terrível (abysmal, awesome, awful, deadly, desperate, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, fell, frightful, gruesome, horrible, lurid, parlous, redoubtable, redoubted, terrible, terrific, tragic, tremendous, ungodly), temer (be afraid of, fear, funk), recear (apprehend, be afraid of, boggle, distrust, doubt, fear), pavoroso (awesome, ghastly, gruesome), pavor (consternation, fright, funk, habdabs, horror, terror), medonho (awful, dire, direful, dreadful, forbidding, frightful, grisly, hideous, horrible, infernal, terrible, tremendous), medo (affright, awe, dismay, fear, fearfulness, fright, funk, intimidation, panic, scare), horror (abhorrence, abomination, horror, terror), horrível (abysmal, awful, direful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, gruesome, horrible, nasty, terrible, unholy). (various references)

Romanian

teroare (blue funk, terror), temut (dreaded), teamã (alarm, anxiety, apprehension, awe, fear, fright, nervousness, palpitation, panic, pusillanimity, terror), spaimã (affright, agony, bugaboo, dismay, fear, fright, funk, horror, scare, scourge, startle, terror), se teme (apprehend, fear, tremble), groazã (affright, blue funk, dismay, fearfulness, fright, horror, nightmare, terror, ton), înspãimântãtor (appalling, awsome, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, frightfully, ghastly, ghostlike, horrible, horrid, howling, terrible, terrific, tremendous, unearthly), înfiorãtor (awful, awfully, creepy, dreadful, dreadfully, foully, gruesome, terrible). (various references)

Russian 

страх (Angst, awe, dismay, fear, fright, funk, intimidation, phobia, scariness, terror), страшиться страх страшный, то, что порождает страх. (various references)

Scottish

uamhas (horror, monster, object of, terror), sgeun (look of fear, readiness to be), oillt (horror, terror), giorag (fear, noise, panic), geilt (fear, terror). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

užas (abomination, horror, terror), strava (fright, horror), strah (alarm, creeps, fear, fright, funk, trepidation, wind up), plašiti se (be afraid, fear, frighten, funk). (various references)

Spanish

terror (fright, horror, intemperance, terror, terrorization), terrible (awful, devastating, dire, dirty, dreadful, eerie, evil, fearful, ghastly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, jolly, lousy, lurid, outrageous, splitting, terrible, terror, unholy, wicked), tener pavor, tener miedo (be afraid, fear), temer (apprehend, be afraid of, fear), sentir aprensión de, pavoroso (creepy, dreadful, fearful, frightening, lurid, terrifying), pavor, monstruo (caliban, colossus, dragon, freak, giant, monster), miedo (afraid, agony, anguish, apprehension, fear, fearnought, fright, nervousness, timid, trepidation), horror (abhorrence, abomination, awfulness, fear, fright, frightfulness, horror, terror), horrible (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, appalling, awful, bleak, dire, direful, dirty, dismal, dreary, evil, formidably, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, lousy, lurid, moldy, mouldy, nasty, shocking, stinking, terrible, terror, vile, wicked), espantoso (amazing, appaling, appalling, dreadful, frightening, frightful, gruesome, hideous, nerve racking, scarey, scary, shocking, stark, terrifying). (various references)

Swedish

frukta (be afraid of, fear). (various references)

Thai

กลัวมาก, รู้สึกแย่มาก, ความน่ากลัว (dreadfulness, fearfulness). (various references)

Turkish

dehşet (alarm, consternation, dismay, fear, fright, frightfulness, funk, horror, terror, trepidation), korkuyla beklemek (apprehend, sweat it out), korkulan şey, korku (affright, alarm, apprehension, awe, dismay, fear, fright, funk, gothic, horror, misgiving, phobia, scare, trepidation), korkmak (be afraid, be afraid of, be appalled, be frightened, be scared of, fear, flinch, funk, get a fright, get cold feet, have a fright, have cold feet, quail, scare, show the white feather, shy, sweat blood, take fright), kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dreadfull, evil, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), berbat (abominable, abysmal, accursed, accurst, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, badly, beastly, bum, chronic, crappy, dashed, destroyed, deuced, devilish, disgusting, dreadfull, egregious, execrable, fierce, flagitious, frightful, ghastly, grotty, hell, hell of, helluva, horrible, horrid, indifferent, infamous, infernal, ropy, rotten, screwed, shocking, sickening, spoilt, sticky, stinking, terrible, ungodly, unsavory, unsavoury, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, wretched), ürkmek (balk at, be appalled, blench, boggle, get a fright, have a fright, jump, lose one's nerve, quail, scare, shy, start, startle, take fright, wince), ürkütücü şey (specter, spectre), ödü kopmak (be frightened to death, be scared of, be terrified), çekinmek (beware, boggle, chicken out, fear, flee from, flinch, funk, get cold feet, hang back, have cold feet, hesitate, hold back, hold off, keep clear of, shrink, shun, shy, wince, withdraw). (various references)

Ukrainian

страховище (bogy, bugaboo, hobgoblin, monstrosity, scare, scarecrow), страх (alarm, anxiety, apprehension, boggle, fear, fray, fright, horror), страшний (awful, blood-curdling, frantic, frightful, ghastly, grisly, hair raising, horrible, horrid, terrible), відчувати благоговійний страх (be in awe), жахлива людина, боятися (be afraid, fear, funk, sneak). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dễ sợ (dreadful, gaunt, terrible), vật l� m khiếp sợ, uy nghiêm lẫm liệt, sự kinh sợ, sự kinh hãi (terror), sự khiếp sợ, sự khiếp đảm điều l� m kinh hãi, l� m kinh sợ (appalling, appallingly), kinh khiếp l� m run sợ, khiếp (dreadful). (various references)

Welsh

ofni (apprehend, fear), ofnadwyaeth (awe, terror), ofn (apprehension, fear, terror), braw (alarm, fright, terror), arynaig (fear), arswydo (fear, shudder), arswyd (horror, terror). (various references)

abhorrescant, extimescas, extimuerat, extimuerunt, extimuit, formidabant, formidabit, formidabunt, formidantes, formidarent, formidas, formidasti, formidatis, formidaverunt, formidavit, formident, formides, formidet, formidetis, formido, formido, formidonis, horrebunt, horrendas, horrende, horrendi, horrendos, horrendum, horrendus, horror, horrore, horroris, horruerunt, horruit, medos, metitus, metu, metuamus, metuant, metuas, metuatis, metuebant, metuebat, metuebit, metuendus, metuens, metuentem, metuentes, metuentibus, metuere, metuet, metuistis, metuite, metuito, metum, metuo, metus, metuunt, pavor, terror, time, timeamus, timeant, timeas, timeat, timeatis, timebam, timebant, timebat, timebatis, timebimus, timebis, timebit, timebitis, timebo, timebunt, timemus, timens, timent, timentem, timentes, timenti, timentibus, timentis, timentium, timeo, timere, timeremus, timerent, timeres, times, timet, timete, timetis, timor, timore, timorem, timores, timori, timoris, timuerant, timuerat, timuerimus, timueris, timuerit, timueritis, timuerunt, timueruntque, timui, timuisti, timuistis, timuit, timuitque, vereatur, verebantur, verebar, verenda, verentur, vereor, vererentur, veritas, veritus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "dread": dreaded, dreadful, dreadfully, dreadfulness, dreadfulnesses, dreadfuls, dreading, dreadlock, dreadlocks, dreadnought, dreadnoughts, dreads. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dread" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: darda, darea, dera, Derab, derat, derde, dorea, draad, drade, Drady, drae, draee, draew, drea, dreadl, dready, drean, dreap, dreaw, dreay, dred, dreeb, dreed, dreek, dreird, drend, dreo, Dreu, dria, driod, droad, drood, Drouard, druad, drude, dryde, Durrewald, Dzevad, iread. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: adder, dared, readd.

-1 letter: dare, dead, dear, read, redd.

-2 letters: add, are, dad, ear, era, rad, red.

-3 letters: ad, ae, ar, de, ed, er, re.

+1 letter: adders, adored, badder, barded, carded, dander, darked, darned, darted, deader, deodar, draped, drayed, dreads, farded, gadder, graded, ladder, larded, madder, padder, radded, raddle, raided, readds, sadder, traded, wadder, warded, yarded.

+2 letters: abraded, address, addrest, adducer, adhered, adjured, admired, adorned, arcaded, awarded, bearded, bedward, bladder, boarded, bradded, braided, branded, breaded, cheddar, cradled, danders, dandier, dandler, darkled, dartled, daunder, dawdler, deaired, defraud, degrade, deodara, deodars, derated, diehard, drabbed, drafted, dragged, drained, dramedy, drammed, dratted, drawled, dreaded, dreamed, dryades, dwarfed, faddier, gadders, gladder, guarded, hoarded, ladders, madders, padders, paddler, paraded, raddled, raddles, radioed, readded, readied, redated, redhead, roadbed, saddler, swarded, treaded, wadders, waddler.