dreadful
pronunciation
How to pronounce dreadful in British English:
UK [ˈdredfl]
How to pronounce dreadful in American English:
US [ˈdredfl]
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- Adjective:
- causing fear or dread or terror
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
- very unpleasant
Word Origin
- dreadful (adj.)
- early 13c., "full of dread," from dread (n.) + -ful. Meaning "causing dread" is from mid-13c.; weakened sense of "very bad" is from c. 1700. Related: Dreadfully.
Example
- 1. You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house .
- 2. Parts of somalia exceed these dreadful thresholds .
- 3. Still , freezing the sezs looked dreadful .
- 4. This is a dreadful new turn .
- 5. But he tells it as if it were still a dreadful thing .