dread

/dɹˈɛd/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

noun

1. fearful expectation or anticipation
   “the student looked around the examination room with apprehension”

verb

1. be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
   “I fear the winters in Moscow”

adjective

1. causing fear or dread or terror
   “the awful war”

Synonyms for dread

• apprehension
• apprehensiveness
• fear
• awful
• dire
• direful
• dreaded
• dreadful
• fearful
• fearsome
• frightening
• horrendous
• horrific
• terrible
• alarming

Words that rhyme with dread

• head
• lead
• spread
• dead
• bed
• read
• tread
• overhead
• thread
• ahead
• red
• shed
• homestead
• spearhead
• thoroughbred
• wed
• bobsled
• bread
• featherbed
• infrared
• masthead
• redhead
• retread
• shred
• watershed
• airhead
• beachhead
• bloodshed
• bridgehead
• bullhead