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dread
Synonyms and Antonyms of dread
- every ship on the Spanish Main was terrified of running into the dread pirate
daunting, demoralizing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, startling, threatening, troubling, trying, unnerving
bone-chilling, creepy, eerie (also eery), weird
appalling, atrocious, awful, grisly, gruesome (also grewsome), hideous, horrid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish
dread
Synonyms and Antonyms of dread
- the dread felt by people awaiting bad news
alarm (also alarum), apprehension, apprehensiveness, foreboding, misgiving
- we were filled with dread when we saw the rapids we would be rafting down
- speaking in public is a perennial dread for many people
bête noire, black beast, bogey (also bogie), bugaboo, bugbear, hobgoblin, ogre
apparition, ghost, phantasm (also fantasm), phantom, poltergeist, shade, specter (or spectre), spirit, spook, wraith
banshee, bogeyman (also bogyman), demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, ghoul, imp, incubus
fright, horrible, horror, monster, monstrosity, terror
Synonym Discussion of dread
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- fear of the unknown
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- faced the meeting with dread
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- fright at being awakened suddenly
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- view the situation with alarm
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- the news caused widespread panic
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- immobilized with terror
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- raised the subject with trepidation
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