Dreadful is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DREADFUL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a lurid novel
• cheap, often lurid or sensational book or magazine
ADJECTIVE:
• awful
• causing or involving great suffering, fear, or unhappiness; extremely bad or serious
• extremely disagreeable
• (of a person) unwell or troubled
• used to emphasize the degree to which something is the case, especially something regarded with sadness or disapproval
• Full of dread or terror; fearful.
• Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm.
• Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.
• causing fear or dread or terror
• exceptionally bad or displeasing
• very unpleasant
• very disagreeable or shocking
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a publication containing sensational material

Words related to DREADFUL

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Words that contain DREADFUL

dreadfuls14 dreadfully18 dreadfulness17 dreadfulnesses19

How to use DREADFUL in a sentence

• He had been on board the Canterbury slaveship at the dreadful massacre at Calabar.
• O! my friend, the approach of death is very dreadful.
• That is to say, I came away because I had such a dreadful headache.
• Once I felt a letter that was full of hate, dreadful! And I read quite shocking things in it.
• Still, there remained the dreadful tidings to be communicated to those dear beings, who, while they feared so much, had never anticipated a calamity like this.
• Perhaps she had even asked Falconer to help her out of a situation which, for some dreadful reason, she suddenly found impossible.
• Dreadful diseases, which cannot exist where people have the chance to bathe and keep themselves clean, once more appeared, sweeping away hundreds of thousands of victims.
• It is dreadful to think of the laughter of the gods.
• We have told her it would be dreadful if the King were to grow angry with you, and she things she will cry all night if he is angry.
• His manner was that of a man labouring with some dreadful thought, and endeavouring to give an air of carelessness and insensibility to his behaviour.
• Few can speak evil of her, and very many will sincerely mourn her early death, and sympathize with you in this dreadful hour.
• I gathered from what was said that he had got a dreadful shock from seeing some woman take off her mask, and show her face to him at the ball.
• And then began again the dreadful heart-straining struggle of desperate men set to a task too great.
• He did not attempt to conceal from himself the dreadful nature of the task before him.
• The stench that filled the air was so intolerable that we hastened to get out of this dreadful place.
• Not only have they excommunicated individuals, but whole families and provinces have come under their law, with horrible ceremonies and dreadful imprecations.
• Oates, the informer of this dreadful plot, was himself the most infamous of mankind.
• The noise of snapping, snarling and growling was kept up and through the watches of that dreadful night, he never closed an eye.
• I felt that the sacrifice of my life, even, if it were necessary, was demanded to pay for those dreadful thoughts.
• The dreadful apprehension that they were leading her to the workhouse crossed my mind, and I would have avoided her if I could.
• The result in my case is that I have a dreadful fear of moral wrong doing.
• Not a word was said, but something told him that he had committed some dreadful mistake.
• It went in a slow and dreadful circle, this suffering, like the turning of a monstrous wheel.
• It was dreadful to hear her above the cries of the children.
• I am a dreadful failure, Poppy, a dreadful, dreadful failure, and I cannot look any one in the face.

Similar words containing DREAD without suffix ful

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