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dreadful

/'drɛdfəl/

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adjective
causing fear or dread or terror
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"a dreadful storm"

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awful dire direful dread dreaded fearful fearsome frightening horrendous horrific terrible alarming
adjective
exceptionally bad or displeasing
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"dreadful manners"

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abominable atrocious awful painful terrible unspeakable bad
adjective
extremely disagreeable and unpleasant
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"don't go out, the weather is dreadful"

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disagreeable

Examples of dreadful

"a dreadful storm"
"dreadful manners"
"don't go out, the weather is dreadful"