1. Causing fear, dread or terror
   "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was";
   - awful, dire, direful [archaic], dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible

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

See also: alarming

Type of: experience, feel

Encyclopedia: Dread, Adam