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dreadful Definition


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dreadful
adj
    1. Inspiring great fear; terrible.
      Thesaurus: frightful, horrendous, horrible, tragic, distressing, monstrous, grievous, terrible, alarming, dire, awful; Antonym: comforting.
    2. loosely
      Very bad, unpleasant or extreme.
Derivative: dreadfully
    Terribly.
    colloq
    Extremely; very.
      Example: It's dreadfully late
Etymology: 13c.



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