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dreadful 音標拼音: [dr'ɛdfəl] a. 可怕的 可怕的 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" [ synonym: { awful}, { dire}, { direful}, { dread( a)}, { dreaded}, { dreadful}, { 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" [ synonym: { atrocious}, { abominable}, { awful}, { dreadful}, { painful}, { terrible}, { unspeakable}] 3: very unpleasantDreadful \ 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] 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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