Dreadful

Quick meaning: Dreadful is an adjective meaning Full of something causing dread, whether.

Meaning

Full of something causing dread, whether.

More Meanings

1. (informal) Dreadfully.
2. A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
3. A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
4. A shocking or sensational crime.
5. (obsolete) Full of dread, whether

Example Sentences

I'm sorry, Miz Terrigan. I'm dreadful sorry.

You don't look so dreadful poor in the face as you did a while back.

"No," she replied, coolly, "and I shall want my dinner dreadful bad afore I get it, I know. You don't often feel dreadful hungry, do you, sir?

Word Forms

• dreadfull
• dredful
• dreadfuls

Synonyms for dreadful

Depending on context, synonyms include frightening, bad, dread, atrocious, alarming, fearsome.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include horrific, terrible, direful, atrocious, dreaded, horrendous.

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