Something that's terribly bad is dreadful. Some people love going to the opera, but for others there's no more dreadful way to spend three hours.
Full of dread or terror; fearful.
Adjective S.
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"; "
Adjective S.
exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
Adjective S.
very unpleasant
a.
Full of dread or terror; fearful.
a.
Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful;
terrible; as, a dreadful storm.
a.
Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.
Dreadful
For all things are less dreadful than they seem.3.
Full of dread or terror; fearful.
Usage Examples
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
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Other Usage ExamplesIntegrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
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