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adjective

Dreadful adj.

Full of dread or terror; fearful. (Obs.) "With dreadful heart."

Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." "For all things are less dreadful than they seem."

Inspiring awe or reverence; awful. (Obs.) "God's dreadful law."

Synonyms: Fearful; frightful; terrific; terrible; horrible; horrid; formidable; tremendous; awful; venerable. See Frightful.

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"Dreadful" Quotes from Famous Books

... at the top of your voice," groaned Starr, in a dreadful whisper. "There may be some one at the next table who can speak English. I've had an awful lesson, as nobody knows better than you, to behave in a restaurant as if I were at church. The real Lady McN., ...

— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson

... of this dreadful event reached Rome, that city was filled with grief and fear. The heart of Augustus, now an old man, was stricken with dismay at the slaughter of the best soldiers of the empire. With neglected dress and person he wandered about the rooms ...

— Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality, German • Charles Morris

... caught in many places and thrived fiercely, and being all locked up in strong cells for the night, began to know that they were in danger of being burnt alive. This terrible fear, spreading from cell to cell and from yard to yard, vented itself in such dismal cries and wailings, and in such dreadful shrieks for help, that the whole jail resounded with the noise; which was loudly heard even above the shouting of the mob and roaring of the flames, and was so full of agony and despair, that ...

— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens

... dreadful! Why should the Generals be executed? What have they done to deserve this cruel fate? And what is the use of placing them in safe custody after they have been executed? And what are the "certain formalities"? We pause for a reply ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., December 6, 1890 • Various

... more unhappy Easter since the days of Haverton House. He was oppressed by the sense of excommunication that brooded over the Abbey, and on the Saturday of Passion Week the versicles and responses of the proper Compline had a dreadful irony. ...

— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie

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