dread
dread is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
- intransitive verb. To be in dread, or great fear.
- noun. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
- noun. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
- noun. An object of terrified apprehension.
- noun. A person highly revered.
- noun. Fury; dreadfulness.
- noun. Doubt; as, out of dread.
- adjective. Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
- adjective. Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
- noun. fearful expectation or anticipation
"the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
- verb. be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
"I fear the winters in Moscow"
"We should not fear the Communists!"
- adjective. causing fear or dread or terror
"the awful war"
"an awful risk"
Synonyms
apprehension, fear, awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dread:
Common word forms
dreads, dreaded, dreader, dreadly, dreadest, dreadful, dreading, dreadable, dreadless, dreadness
Words from these letters
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