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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | apprehension, apprehensiveness |
| Type of | fearfulness, fear, fright |
| Has types | boding, premonition, presentiment, somberness, sombreness, suspense, trepidation, pall, chill, foreboding, gloom, gloominess |
Examples of dread
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The banks dread a world in which consumers pay cash instead of borrowing at 18%.
From the us.cnn.com
I've laughed myself to tears more times than I can count and I dread its ending.
From the tunedin.blogs.time.com
There are historical patterns of such moods, recurring cycles of hope and dread.
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Under Miller's patient probing, any number of dread disorders may be identified.
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Maybe attrition plus the dread jobless recovery will come to the schools'rescue.
From the theatlantic.com
I dread to think how utterly immobile I will be in even ten weeks, let alone 20.
From the nzherald.co.nz
When feelings of depression, helplessness, and dread become overwhelming, pause.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
It's a place where they don't dread Monday morning on Sunday night, they'll say.
From the timesunion.com
Europe in 1938 was crawling with dread at the chaos that was about to engulf it.
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- Awful: 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 ...
- Apprehension: fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
- Fear: be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
- Dread is a live album by Living Colour released only in Japan in 1994. It contains live recordings from the Stain tour, an acoustic radio session and two B-sides. ...
- Dread is a 2009 horror film directed by Anthony DiBlasi and starring Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Evans and Hanne Steen, based on the short story of the same name by Clive Barker. The story was originally published in 1984 in volume two of Barker's Books of Blood short story collections.
- A great fear; Somebody or something dreaded; A Rastafarian; dreadlock; To fear greatly; To anticipate with fear; Terrible; greatly feared; Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe
- Feeling dreadful. "I feel dred man". Also a Rastafarian term used to describe something impressive or cool.
- The feeling of not being able to deflect (certainly not without effort) a certain identifiable threat.
- To be reluctant to do, meet, or experience
