Unscramble dread

Definition of dread

adjective:

• 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". Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible.

noun:

• fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension". Synonyms: apprehension, apprehensiveness.

verb:

• be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow", "We should not fear the Communists!". Synonyms: fear.

Related words

boding, chill, foreboding, gloom, gloominess, pall, panic, premonition, presentiment, somberness, sombreness, suspense, trepidation.

Words nearby

bread, dead, dream, drear, dryad, oread, read, tread.

Rhymes with

abed, ahead, bed, behead, behead, bread, dead, ed, embed, fed, head, imbed, infrared, instead, interbred, lead, led, med, misread, overfed.