Word Meanings - ADREAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To dread. Sir P. Sidney.

Related words: (words related to ADREAD)

• DREADNOUGHT
  1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by
• DREADFUL
  1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." Chaucer. 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth. 3.
• DREADFULNESS
  The quality of being dreadful.
• DREADABLE
  Worthy of being dreaded.
• DREAD
  To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension. When at length the moment dreaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind. Macaulay.
• DREADNAUGHT
  1. A fearless person. 2. Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.
• DREADLESSNESS
  Freedom from dread.
• DREADLESS
  1. Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart. "The dreadless angel." Milton. 2. Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure. " safe in his dreadless den." Spenser.
• DREADINGLY
  With dread. Warner.
• DREAD-BOLTED
  Armed with dreaded bolts. "Dread-bolted thunder." Shak.
• DREADLY
  Dreadful. "Dreadly spectacle." Spenser. -- adv.
• DREADFULLY
  In a dreadful manner; terribly. Dryden.
• DREADER
  One who fears, or lives in fear.
• SUPERDREADNOUGHT
  See ABOVE
• ADREAD
  To dread. Sir P. Sidney.
• MISDREAD
  Dread of evil.