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- Dictionarydread/dred/
verb
- 1. anticipate with great apprehension or fear: "Jane was dreading the party"
noun
- 1. great fear or apprehension: "the thought of returning to New Jersey filled her with dread"
- 2. a person with dreadlocks. informal
adjective
- 1. greatly feared; dreadful: "he was stricken with the dread disease and died"
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The meaning of DREAD is to fear greatly. How to use dread in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Dread.
He's dreading the exam - he's sure he's going to fail. [ + -ing verb ] I'm dreading hav ing to meet his parents. I dread to think what would happen if he was left to cope on his own. We are dreading the idea of having my son's friends to stay. I dread to think what they say about me behind my back.
Dread is a feeling of great anxiety and fear about something that may happen. She thought with dread of the cold winters to come. Dread means terrible and greatly feared. ...a more effective national policy to combat this dread disease. You can use dread to describe something that you, or a particular group of people, find annoying or undesirable.
Dread definition: to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of. See examples of DREAD used in a sentence.
To be in terror of; fear intensely: "What I most dreaded as a child was the close danger of the atomic bomb" (James Carroll). 2. To anticipate with alarm, distaste, or reluctance: We dreaded the long drive home. 3. Archaic To hold in awe or reverence. To be very afraid. n. 1. a.
The noun dread describes the fear of something bad happening, like the dread you feel when walking alone on a deserted street in the dark. Dread is a feeling of fear, but it can also be the desire to avoid something.
[uncountable, countable, usually singular] a feeling of great fear about something that might or will happen in the future; a thing that causes this feeling. The prospect of growing old fills me with dread. She has an irrational dread of hospitals.
Definition of dread verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
DREAD definition: 1. to feel worried or frightened about something that has not happened yet: 2. used to say that…. Learn more.
To anticipate with anxiety, alarm, or apprehension; fear intensely. To face (something disagreeable) with reluctance. To be very fearful. To regard with awe. Intense fear, esp. of something which may happen. Profound fear; terror. Fearful or anxious anticipation. The dread of saying something foolish on stage. Reluctance and uneasiness.
