1. Be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
   "I dread the winters in Moscow";
   - fear

1. Fearful expectation or anticipation
   "the student looked around the examination room with dread";
   - apprehension, apprehensiveness, misgiving

1. Causing fear, dread or terror
   "the dread presence of the headmaster";
   - awful, dire, direful [archaic], dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible

Derived forms: dreaded, dreads, dreading

See also: alarming

Type of: expectation, experience, fear, fearfulness, feel, fright, outlook, prospect

Encyclopedia: Dread, Adam