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Princeton's WordNet

  1. awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terribleadjective

    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 explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"

Wiktionary

  1. dreadedadjective

    Causing fear, dread or terror

ChatGPT

  1. dreaded

    Dreaded refers to something that is highly feared, intimidated or causing great distress, anxiety, or unease. It is typically used to describe a situation, event or object that a person greatly fears or wants to avoid. It implies strong worry or apprehension towards impending, undesirable situation or activity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dreaded

    of Dread

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Anagrams for DREADED »

  1. dead-red

  2. readded

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of DREADED in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of DREADED in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of DREADED in a Sentence

  1. David Barker:

    In the short run, his numbers might get even worse if he then does not decide to shut things down again — because he will lose favor with people on his own side who currently support him, in the long run, though, shutting things down will make him even more unpopular, because it would tank the economy again — producing the dreaded two-headed monster of stagflation.

  2. Trainer Bob Baffert:

    The dreaded one hole, it's not a good feeling, when Santa Anita Derby winner Dortmund drew the eight, I was happy with that.

  3. TSM_SweetPotato6:

    Shut up dreaded!!!”

  4. Rupert Murdoch:

    I dreaded falling in love — but I knew this would be my last, it better be. I’m happy.

  5. Julie Fitzgerald:

    I did not want to take the picture because I had this dreaded feeling in the pit of my stomach, i took the picture, and boom: His whole pupil was just white— and that’s when I knew.

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