[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

dreadful \dread"ful\, a.
   1. full of dread or terror; fearful. obs. "with dreadful
      heart." --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   2. inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible;
      as, a dreadful storm. " dreadful gloom." --milton.
      1913 webster

            for all things are less dreadful than they seem.
                                                  --wordsworth.
      1913 webster

   3. inspiring awe or reverence; awful. obs. "god's dreadful
      law." --shak.

   syn: fearful; frightful; terrific; terrible; horrible;
        horrid; formidable; tremendous; awful; venerable. see
        frightful.
        1913 webster
see also:
frightful 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

dreadful
     adj 1: 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"; "a fearful howling";
            "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible
            curse" syn: awful, dire, direful, dreada, dreaded,
             fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific,
             terrible
     2: 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" syn: atrocious,
         abominable, awful, painful, terrible, unspeakable
     3: very unpleasant
see also:
awful dire direful dreada dreaded fearful 
fearsome frightening horrendous horrific terrible 
atrocious abominable painful unspeakable 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

178 moby thesaurus words for "dreadful":
   bildungsroman, gothic novel, abominable, alarming, appalling,
   arrant, astounding, atrocious, august, awe-inspiring, awesome,
   awful, awfully, bad, baneful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, big,
   blameworthy, brutal, comic novel, contemptible, damned, deadly,
   demonic, deplorable, despicable, detective novel, detestable,
   devilish, diabolical, dime novel, dire, direful, disgusting, dread,
   dreaded, dreadfully, egregious, enormous, epistolary novel,
   erotic novel, estimable, evil, exceedingly, feared, fearful,
   fearsome, fell, fetid, fiendish, filthy, flagitious, flagrant,
   forbidding, formidable, foul, frightening, frightful, fulsome,
   ghastly, ghoulish, grievous, grim, grisly, gross, gruesome,
   hateful, heinous, hideous, historical novel, honorable, horrendous,
   horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, howling, infamous,
   iniquitous, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, macabre, malefic,
   maleficent, malevolent, monstrous, morbid, nasty, nefarious,
   noisome, notorious, nouvelle, novel, novel of character,
   novel of ideas, novel of incident, novel of manners,
   novel of sensibility, novelette, novella, obnoxious, odious,
   offensive, outrageous, penny dreadful, picaresque novel, pitiable,
   pitiful, pornographic novel, problem novel, proletarian novel,
   propaganda novel, psychological novel, rank, rattling, redoubtable,
   regional novel, regrettable, remarkably, repelling, reprehensible,
   repugnant, repulsive, reverend, revolting, river novel, roman,
   roman a clef, roman-fleuve, rotten, rousing, sad, satirical novel,
   scandalous, scary, schlock, schrecklich, science-fiction novel,
   scurvy, sentimental novel, shabby, shameful, shilling,
   shilling shocker, shocking, shoddy, short story, short-short,
   sociological novel, sordid, squalid, storiette,
   stream-of-consciousness novel, strikingly, terrible, terrific,
   thesis novel, thumping, time-honored, too bad, tragic, tremendous,
   unclean, unspeakable, venerable, vignette, vile, villainous,
   whacking, wicked, woeful, worshipful, worst, worthless, wretched

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