Word Meanings - DREAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DREAD)

• Alarm
• Apprehension
• fright
• fear
• timidity
• consternation
• tocsin
• war-cry
• war-note
• reveille
• dread
• disquietude
• dismay
• Apprehend
• Comprehend
• understand
• take
• expect
• seize
• conceive
• arrest
• fancy
• imagine
• presume
• anticipate
• conjecture
• Awe
• Fear
• veneration
• reverence
• solicitude alarm
• terror
• trepidation
• misgiving
• horror
• awe
• Horror
• shrinking
• loathing
• detestation
• excessive fear

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DREAD)

• Compose
• embolden
• reassure
• rally
• Release
• dismiss
• liberate
• free
• discharge
• expedite
• Computation
• calculation
• inference
• reckoning
• proof
• deduction
• Encourage
• inspirit
• assure
• allure

Related words: (words related to DREAD)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• ASSURER
  1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• 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
• APPREHENSION
  1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• COMPUTATION
  1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate;
• CONJECTURER
  One who conjectures. Hobbes.
• SHRINKINGLY
  In a shrinking manner.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• APPREHEND
  of, seize; prae before + -hendere ; akin to Gr. 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hence: To take or seize by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 3. To take hold of with
• IMAGINE
  1. To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination. In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear! Shak. 2. To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• SOLICITUDE
  The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety. The many cares and great labors of worldly men, their solicitude and outward shows. Sir W. Raleigh. The mother looked at her with fond solicitude.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.
• MISCOMPUTATION
  Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• UNCOMPREHEND
  To fail to comprehend. Daniel.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• UNASSURED
  1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• PLOT-PROOF
  Secure against harm by plots. Shak.