Dread
[dred] or [drɛd]
Definition
(v. t.) To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
(v. i.) To be in dread, or great fear.
(n.) Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
(n.) Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
(n.) An object of terrified apprehension.
(n.) A person highly revered.
(n.) Fury; dreadfulness.
(n.) Doubt; as, out of dread.
(a.) Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
(a.) Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
Checker: Luther
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Fear, apprehension.[2]. Awe.
a. [1]. Frightful, terrible, horrible, dreadful.[2]. Venerable, awful.
v. a. Fear greatly.
Typist: Nigel
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fear, shuddering, terror, horror, alarm, intimidation, apprehension
ANT:Courage, confidence, welcome, assurance
Editor: Lois
Definition
n. fear: awe: the objects that excite fear.—adj. dreaded: inspiring great fear or awe.—v.t. to regard with terror: to regard with reverence.—adjs. Dread′able; Dread′ful (orig.) full of dread: producing great fear or awe: terrible.—adv. Dread′fully.—n. Dread′fulness.—adj. Dread′less free from dread: intrepid.—adv. Dread′lessly.—n. Dread′lessness.—adj. Dread′ly (Spens.) dreadful.—ns. Dread′naught Dread′nought one who dreads nothing—hence a garment of thick cloth defending against the weather: the cloth of which it is made.—Penny dreadful a cheap sensational serial or tale usually bloody in subject and vulgar in tone.
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Examples
- I almost dread to-morrow--so much depends on my discretion and self-control. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I trust the former, answered her father hopefully; but I dread the latter. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He is here,' said Louisa, with dread. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He has been idling all this term, and he must look forward with dread to the examination. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Or could Bertha--the dread alternative sprang on her suddenly--could Bertha, left to herself, have gone ashore to rejoin him? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The springs of my life fell low, and the shuddering of an unutterable dread crept over me from head to foot. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Apprehension means dread of undesirable consequences, as well as intellectual grasp. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He dreaded to hear that something had been said to Mary--he felt as if he were listening to a threat rather than a warning. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I don't know what I thought, or what I dreaded. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I had dreaded this from the firSt. I would have prevented it, if she had allowed me the smallest chance of doing so. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Again, the dreaded Sunday comes round, and I file into the old pew first, like a guarded captive brought to a condemned service. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yet I dreaded to witness the anguish which my resolve might excite in Idris. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- All he feared and dreaded was that the vile jargon should come to him by itself, in spite of all he could do to prevent it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Fear overcame me; I dared not advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Or the leader of a Free Company, answered the Templar, from dreading at the hands of a comrade and friend, the injustice he does to all mankind. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In the Southern States, culture among the negroes is openly deplored, and I do not blame any patriarch for dreading the education of women. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I need not say that I had my own reasons for dreading his coming: but come he did at last. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- On this occasion I went, dreading the worst, to his dwelling, to see if I could be of any service to those of his family who might have survived. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I know too well, as his grave figure passes onward, what he seeks, and what he dreads. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You _are_ afraid--your self-love dreads a blunder. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Every one keeps at a distance, and dreads that storm, which beats upon me from every side. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He dreads me alive as an enemy, and dead he fears my avengers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She feels caught, hemmed in; she dreads her unexpected presence may annoy him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He grows so tired of that unceasing question sometimes, that he dreads to show us any thing at all. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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