Dictionary Definition
dread adj : 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" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible] n : fearful
expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the
examination room with apprehension" [syn: apprehension, apprehensiveness] v :
be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in
Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!" [syn: fear]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛd
Noun
- A great fear.
- Somebody or something dreaded.
- A Rastafarian.
Translations
somebody or something dreaded
- Finnish: kauhistus
See also
Verb
- To fear greatly.
- To anticipate with fear.
Translations
to fear greatly
to anticipate with fear
Extensive Definition
Dread may refer to:
- Extreme fear
- Angst, a profound and deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and despair in the free human being in Existentialist thought
- A short story in horror author Clive Barker's Books of Blood collection, or the comic-book or stage adaptation of same
- Dreadlocks, a hairstyle
- Dread, an ENnie-award winning horror role-playing game, published by The Impossible Dream, which utilizes a Jenga tower as its main game mechanic.
- Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium, a different independently published modern-horror role-playing game
- DREAD: Risk assessment model, a model for assessing computer security risks; acronym for Damage potential, Reproducibility, Exploitability, Affected users, and Discoverability
dread in German: Dread
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abject fear, affright, agitation, alarm, all-overs, angst, anguish, anticipate, anticipation, anxiety, anxiety hysteria,
anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat,
anxiousness,
appalling, apprehend, apprehension, apprehensiveness,
astounding, aversion, awe, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, be afraid, blue funk,
boredom, cankerworm of
care, care, cheerlessness,
cliff-hanging, cold feet, concern, concernment, consternation, contemplate, cowardice, dire, direful, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, dislike, dismay, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, dissatisfaction,
distress, disturbance, dreaded, dreadful, dullness, emptiness, ennui, envisage, existential woe,
expect, expectant
waiting, eye askance, face,
fear, feared, fearfulness, fell, flatness, flinch, foreboding, forebodingness, foresee, formidable, fright, funk, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grimness, grisly, gruesome, have in mind, have
qualms, hideous,
hope, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrification, horrifying, horror, inquietude, joylessness, lack of
pleasure, macabre,
malaise, misgive, misgiving, morbid, nausea, nervous strain, nervous
tension, nervousness, nongratification,
nonsatisfaction,
overanxiety,
painfulness,
panic, panic fear,
perturbation,
pessimism, phobia, pins and needles,
presume, pucker, qualm, queasiness, redoubtable, savorlessness, scare, schrecklich, shocking, shrink from, sit upon
thorns, solicitude,
spleen, staleness, stampede, stand aghast,
stew, strain, suspense, take for granted,
tastelessness,
tediousness,
tedium, tension, terrible, terrific, terrifying, terror, the heebie-jeebies,
think, tremendous, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, uncertainty, uncomfortableness,
unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unholy dread,
unpleasure, unquietness, unsatisfaction, upset, vexation, vexation of spirit,
waiting, worry, zeal