dreadful

  • (s) 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
    direful, dread, dreaded, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible, awful, dire, fearful, horrific,
  • (s) exceptionally bad or displeasing
    • atrocious taste
    • abominable workmanship
    • an awful voice
    • dreadful manners
    • a painful performance
    • terrible handwriting
    • an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room
    awful, abominable, atrocious, terrible, unspeakable, painful,
  • (s) very unpleasant

Synonyms

direful dread dreaded fearsome frightening horrendous terrible awful dire fearful horrific abominable atrocious unspeakable painful

Words of close approximity

dreadfully dreadfulness