Associations to the word «Dreaded»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

DREAD, noun. Fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension".
DREAD, verb. Be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!".
DREAD, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin