- Types Of Speech
- You can use dreadful as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Dreadful
- A 2 syllables adjective satellite and 8 letters with the letters a, d, e, f, l, r, and u, 5 consonants, 3 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letters ad. Dreadful starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters d, dr, dre, drea, dread, and the ending characters are l, ul, ful, dful, adful, ..
- Definition
- 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"; "
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- Compound Words
- A compound word, dreadful has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are dread, and ful.
- School Grade
- Dreadful is set as a grade seven word that starts with d, ends with l, 2 syllables, 3 vowels and 8 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Dreadful in Pig Latin is said as "eadfuldray or eadfuldrway".
- Unigram
- d | r | e | a | d | f | u | l
- Bigram
- dr | re | ea | ad | df | fu | ul
- Trigram
- dre | rea | ead | adf | dfu | ful
- Quadrigram
- drea | read | eadf | adfu | dful
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- 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";
" - exceptionally bad or displeasing;
"atrocious taste";
"abominable workmanship";
"an awful voice";
"dreadful manners";
"a painful performance";
"terrible handwriting";
"an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" - very unpleasant
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aberrant | one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group |
| Abhorrent | offensive to the mind "an abhorrent deed" "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee" "morally repugnant customs" "repulsive behavior" "the most repulsive character in recent novels" |
| Abnormal | much greater than the normal "abnormal profits" "abnormal ambition" |
| Abominable | exceptionally bad or displeasing "atrocious taste" "abominable workmanship" "an awful voice" "dreadful manners" "a painful performance" "terrible handwriting" "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" |
| Absolute | something that is conceived to be absolute something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control "no mortal being can influence the absolute" |
| Acute | a mark ('') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation |
| Acute Accent | |
| Adverse | in an opposing direction "adverse currents" "a contrary wind" |
| Agonising | extremely painful |
| Agonizing | extremely painful |
View all cognitive synonyms for Dreadful
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dreadful | 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" " |
View English words with the unique letters used in dreadful. Words With The Letters Adeflru
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alarming | causing alarm or fear |
| Title | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Negative Feelings | Describe dreadful | A word list of negative feeling words and the best English words to describe negative emotions. Emotional negative words... read more |
Dreadful Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With L
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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