Synonyms of the word

dread

• v. (transitive) To fear greatly.
• v. To anticipate with fear.
• v. (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.
• v. (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
• n. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
• n. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
• n. Somebody or something dreaded.
• n. (obsolete) A person highly revered.
• n. (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
• n. A Rastafarian.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) dreadlock.
• adj. Terrible; greatly feared.
• adj. (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

alarming

• v. present participle of alarm.
• adj. causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.

apprehension

• n. (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.
• n. (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
• n. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing…
• n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
• n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
• n. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

apprehensiveness

• n. the state of being apprehensive.

awful

• adj. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
• adj. (now rare) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.
• adj. Struck or filled with awe.
• adj. (obsolete) Terror-stricken.
• adj. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
• adj. Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
• adj. Very bad.
• adv. (colloquial, US, Canada) Very, extremely.

dire

• adj. Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
• adj. Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
• adj. Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
• adj. (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.

direful

• adj. Fearful, terrible.

dreaded

• adj. Causing fear, dread or terror.
• adj. Wearing dreadlocks.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of dread.

dreadful

• adj. (obsolete) Full of dread, whether.
• adj. Full of something causing dread, whether.
• n. A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
• n. A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
• n. A shocking or sensational crime.

fear

• n. (uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
• n. (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
• n. (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
• v. (transitive) To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
• v. (intransitive) To feel fear (about something).
• v. (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
• v. (transitive) Regret.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To be anxious or solicitous for.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To suspect; to doubt.
• adj. (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

fearful

• adj. Frightening.
• adj. (now rare) Frightened, filled with terror.
• adj. Tending to fear.
• adj. (dated) Terrible; shockingly bad.

fearfulness

• n. The quality of being fearful.

fearsome

• adj. frightening, especially in appearance.
• adj. (rare or archaic) fearful, frightened.

fright

• n. A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short…
• n. Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To frighten.
• adj. (rare) frightened; afraid; affright.

frightening

• adj. Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.
• adj. (figuratively) Awful, terrible, very bad.
• v. present participle of frighten.

horrendous

• adj. Extremely bad; awful; terrible.

horrific

• adj. Horrifying, causing horror; horrible.

terrible

• adj. Dreadful; causing alarm and fear.
• adj. Formidable, powerful.
• adj. Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
• adj. Unpleasant; disagreeable.
• adj. Very bad; lousy.