Adjective: dreadful dred-ful
- Causing fear, dread or terror
"a dreadful storm";
- awful, dire, direful [archaic], dread, dreaded, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
- Extremely disagreeable and unpleasant
"don't go out, the weather is dreadful"
- Exceptionally bad or displeasing
"dreadful manners";
- atrocious, abominable, awful, painful, terrible, unspeakable, horrible
See also: alarming, bad, disagreeable
Encyclopedia: Dreadful