What is another word for dread?
814 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ dɹˈɛd], [ dɹˈɛd], [ d_ɹ_ˈɛ_d]
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Similar words for dread:
- frightful/frightening (adjective)
- horrendous (adjective)
- horrible, terrifying (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- terrible (adjective)
- alarming (noun)
- angst (noun)
- anxiety (noun)
- apprehension (noun)
- aversion (noun)
- awe (noun)
- bugbear (noun)
- consternation (noun)
- dire (noun)
- direful (noun)
- dismay (noun)
- dread (noun)
- expectation (noun)
- fear (noun)
- feelings (noun)
- foreboding (noun)
- fright (noun)
- ghost (noun)
- hopelessness (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- phobia (noun)
- stress (noun)
- uneasiness (noun)
- anticipate with horror (verb)
- emotion (verb)
- expect (verb)
- fear (verb)
- other synonyms
- fear
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Dread:
adj.
• frightful/frightening (adjective)- hair raising,
- more grabber,
- more traumatic,
- un speakable,
- in-conceivable,
- un-speakable,
- unspeakable,
- most horrifying,
- in conceivable,
- most dismaying,
- most grabber,
- more dismaying,
- most daunting,
- dis-maying,
- dis maying,
- un nerving,
- more petrifying,
- more daunting,
- hairraising,
- most traumatic,
- dis quieting,
- most unnerving,
- grisly,
- un-nerving,
- more horrifying,
- more unnerving,
- most petrifying,
- portentous,
- dis-quieting.
n.
• alarming (noun) • angst (noun)- mid life crisi,
- mis giving,
- midlife crisi,
- mis-giving,
- mid life crisis,
- weltschmerzes,
- mid-life crisi.
- cold sweats,
- mis trusts,
- ants pants,
- heebiejeebies,
- mis-trusts,
- dis quietude,
- nail bitings,
- mis-trust,
- un certainties,
- nailbiting,
- dis-quiet,
- dis quiet,
- all overs,
- nail-bitings,
- fretfulnesses,
- worriments,
- un-certainty,
- dis quietudes,
- heebie jeebies,
- dis quiets,
- dis-quiets,
- dis-quietude,
- un-certainties,
- pins needles,
- mis trust,
- nailbitings,
- un certainty,
- Nail Biting,
- allovers,
- dis-quietudes.
- pre sage,
- pre sentiments,
- pre-sentiments,
- pre-sages,
- pre-monition,
- pre-sage,
- pre monitions,
- pre-sentiment,
- pre sages,
- apprehensivenesses,
- pre-monitions,
- pre sentiment,
- pre monition.
- dis-gust,
- dis-pleasure,
- dis-pleasures,
- in disposition,
- dis-satisfactions,
- in-disposition,
- dis gust,
- dis gusts,
- dis-inclinations,
- dis pleasure,
- dis taste,
- dis-favors,
- having no use fors,
- dis-tastes,
- in-dispositions,
- un-willingnesses,
- dis satisfaction,
- dis-favor,
- dis-satisfaction,
- dis-inclination,
- dis-taste,
- dis pleasures,
- un willingness,
- dis inclinations,
- dis tastes,
- dis liking,
- un-willingness,
- dislikings,
- in dispositions,
- dis-liking,
- dis-gusts,
- dis satisfactions,
- dis favors,
- dis favor,
- dis-likings,
- dis inclination,
- dis likings,
- un willingnesses.
- muddlements,
- be-wilderments,
- dis traction,
- be wilderments,
- be-wilderment,
- trepidities,
- dis-tractions,
- be wilderment,
- dis-traction,
- dis tractions.
- dire.
- envisioning,
- presumption,
- expectancy,
- uncertainty,
- expectation,
- suspense,
- pessimism,
- anticipation,
- contemplation.
- phobia,
- cowardice,
- affright,
- faintheartedness,
- jitters,
- spinelessness,
- stage fright,
- timidity,
- creeps,
- agitation,
- goose bumps.
- fore shadowings,
- fore-warnings,
- fore shadowing,
- pre diction,
- handwriting wall,
- fore warnings,
- pre dictions,
- handwriting the wall,
- pre-notion,
- pre notions,
- fore-bodings,
- fore token,
- fore boding,
- pre notion,
- fore-tokens,
- wind changes,
- sinking feelings,
- fore-boding,
- fore warning,
- fore tokens,
- fore-shadowing,
- fore-shadowings,
- prenotions,
- pre-dictions,
- fore-warning,
- pre-diction,
- pre-notions,
- bad vibe,
- fore bodings,
- fore-token.
- hatred,
- consternation,
- nervous tension,
- stupefaction,
- handwriting on wall,
- cold sweat,
- vibe,
- foreboding,
- fear,
- bad vibes,
- portent,
- foretoken,
- midlife crisis,
- hang up,
- Uncertainties,
- panic,
- foreshadowing,
- willies,
- hangup,
- angst,
- tensity,
- Prenotion,
- dyspathy,
- vibes,
- overextensions,
- aversion,
- tautness,
- stress,
- terror,
- boogeyman,
- Hates,
- apprehensiveness,
- tenseness,
- muddlement,
- nail-biting,
- horror,
- foreshadowings,
- sinking feeling,
- apprehension,
- unease,
- tightness,
- monstrosity,
- intimidation,
- fright,
- Butterflies,
- Loup-garou,
- trepidation,
- Trepidity,
- fretfulness,
- prediction,
- wind change,
- foretokens,
- ants in pants,
- queasiness,
- wraith,
- overextension,
- anxiety,
- alarm,
- chillers,
- worriment,
- thing about,
- dismay,
- having no use for,
- mid-life crisis,
- butterfly,
- Bogies,
- bogy,
- presage,
- uneasiness,
- mistrust.
- ex-tension,
- over extension,
- over-extensions,
- ex-tensions,
- nervous tensions,
- ex tension,
- pro-traction,
- tensenesses,
- over extensions,
- pro traction,
- tightnesses,
- pro-tractions,
- tautnesses,
- pro tractions,
- over-extension,
- tensities,
- in-tensity,
- in tensity.
- dis-comfort,
- dis-beliefs,
- dis comforts,
- in-stabilities,
- dis beliefs,
- in stabilities,
- re-morse,
- re morse,
- dis belief,
- dis-content,
- un rest,
- un-rests,
- un-rest,
- re-morses,
- in quietudes,
- un-easinesses,
- un-easiness,
- un easinesses,
- in-stability,
- dis content,
- queasinesses,
- dis-comforts,
- un easiness,
- dis-contents,
- in-quietude,
- in-quietudes,
- dis comfort,
- in quietude,
- in stability,
- dis contents,
- dyspathies,
- dis-belief,
- re morses.
v.
• anticipate with horror (verb) • emotion (verb) • expect (verb)- assume,
- envision,
- foreknow,
- await,
- envisage,
- anticipate,
- imagine,
- presuppose,
- expect,
- foresee,
- suspect,
- infer,
- presume,
- gather,
- forebode,
- surmise,
- deduce,
- contemplate.
- brake out in sweat,
- be awe,
- wast awe,
- fore seeing,
- are awe,
- hast qualms,
- being in awe,
- losing courage,
- am in awe,
- was disquieted,
- fore seen,
- fore saw,
- has qualms,
- wert in awe,
- broke out in sweat,
- breaks out a sweat,
- wast disquieted,
- being anxious,
- hadst butterflies,
- are apprehensive,
- brake out a sweat,
- break out sweat,
- breaking out a sweat,
- is frightened,
- were apprehensive,
- are afraid,
- is disquieted,
- breaks out sweat,
- breaks out in sweat,
- were in awe,
- had butterflies,
- am awe,
- haddest qualms,
- fore-saw,
- breaking out in a sweat,
- being awe,
- are frightened,
- was afraid,
- wert frightened,
- hath butterflies,
- art awe,
- art afraid,
- wast frightened,
- brake out sweat,
- wast in awe,
- were disquieted,
- was frightened,
- had qualms,
- felt concern,
- has butterflies,
- hast butterflies,
- was awe,
- dared not,
- broke out sweat,
- art frightened,
- being afraid,
- were frightened,
- dares not,
- loses courage,
- haddest butterflies,
- daring not,
- hadst qualms,
- are disquieted,
- being disquieted,
- is apprehensive,
- art in awe,
- am disquieted,
- durst not,
- wast afraid,
- wert afraid,
- art anxious,
- was apprehensive,
- were afraid,
- is in awe,
- broke out a sweat,
- is awe,
- fore sees,
- wast anxious,
- breaks out in a sweat,
- are in awe,
- fore see,
- wert disquieted,
- lost courage,
- fore-seen,
- fore-see,
- wast apprehensive,
- am apprehensive,
- wert awe,
- were awe,
- being apprehensive,
- are anxious,
- am anxious,
- wert apprehensive,
- brake out in a sweat,
- hath qualms,
- wert anxious,
- broke out in a sweat,
- breaking out in sweat,
- were anxious,
- break out in sweat,
- am afraid,
- was anxious,
- having butterflies,
- breaking out sweat,
- was in awe,
- having qualms,
- break out a sweat,
- feels concern,
- fore-sees,
- art apprehensive,
- being frightened,
- is anxious,
- feeling concern.
Other synonyms:
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•
- agonize,
- fearfulness,
- obsess,
- brood,
- dare,
- agonise,
- wonderment,
- fear for,
- fret,
- panic attack,
- the willies,
- work up,
- technophobia,
- sweat,
- fuss,
- freeze up,
- cold feet,
- churn.
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•
- marvel,
- tension,
- flap,
- admiration,
- wobble.
- Shying,
- lose courage,
- dare not,
- shies,
- have qualms,
- Fearing,
- break out in a sweat,
- be apprehensive,
- be disquieted,
- have butterflies,
- be anxious,
- Feared,
- be in awe,
- feel concern,
- is afraid,
- be frightened,
- Flinched.
- emptiness,
- trouble,
- shocking,
- idolize,
- suspicion,
- presentiment,
- horridly,
- grand,
- ghastly,
- trepid,
- desperate,
- forbidding,
- all-overs,
- malaise,
- terrifying,
- frighteningly,
- terrify,
- foul,
- uncomfortableness,
- savvy,
- cliff-hanging,
- horribly,
- detain,
- intellect,
- pucker,
- ghoulish,
- unhappiness,
- tremendously,
- formidable,
- believe,
- horrendously,
- horrify,
- painfulness,
- sinister,
- waiting,
- opposition,
- abhor,
- pins and needles,
- diffidence,
- grimness,
- gory,
- animus,
- awfully,
- terrifically,
- savage,
- macabre,
- unquietness,
- perilous,
- be alarmed,
- perturbation,
- appalling,
- anguish,
- maleficent,
- gloom,
- appallingly,
- understanding,
- frighten,
- hope,
- grimly,
- ennui,
- lurid,
- scruple,
- iniquitous,
- perhaps,
- tremendous,
- maybe,
- gruesomely,
- brutal,
- anxiousness,
- halt,
- detestation,
- horrible,
- concern,
- unpleasure,
- savorlessness,
- grievous,
- be terror-stricken,
- overanxiety,
- odium,
- hideously,
- be sorry,
- wicked,
- shudder at,
- antipathy,
- stew,
- discernment,
- fell,
- perchance,
- disturbance,
- doubt,
- disquietude,
- grotesque,
- afraid,
- collar,
- atrocious,
- collywobbles,
- malevolent,
- nausea,
- repugnance,
- ogre,
- reverence,
- awed,
- scary,
- danger,
- admire,
- be scared,
- misgiving,
- solicitude,
- vexation,
- tremor,
- discontent,
- heebie-jeebies,
- harrowing,
- deadly,
- abysmally,
- terrific,
- Unsatisfaction,
- nervous strain,
- execration,
- stampede,
- cadaverous,
- revulsion,
- premonition,
- misgive,
- gruesome,
- demonic,
- intimidating,
- Affrightment,
- diabolical,
- bugaboo,
- life,
- arrest,
- spleen,
- ghostly,
- venerate,
- hostility,
- deathlike,
- loathing,
- abhorrence,
- excitement,
- conceive,
- displeasure,
- shirk,
- dissatisfaction,
- be concerned,
- abominable,
- intuition,
- question,
- inquietude,
- be agitated,
- fall apart,
- fear and trembling,
- be fearful,
- staleness,
- irrational fear,
- amazing,
- revolting,
- abject fear,
- be terror-struck,
- be terrified,
- take for granted,
- anxiety neurosis,
- rancour,
- stately,
- malefic,
- redoubtable,
- sense,
- wick,
- atrociously,
- respect,
- adore,
- astounding,
- shock,
- anxiety hysteria,
- dullness,
- upset,
- horrid,
- distrust,
- glorify,
- taking into custody,
- disquiet,
- cravenness,
- dislike,
- blue funk,
- hideous,
- deathly,
- frightfully,
- evil,
- face,
- flagitious,
- flatness,
- horrifying,
- pinch,
- veneration,
- animosity,
- tediousness,
- bogey,
- distaste,
- be afraid of,
- concernment,
- care,
- tedium,
- boredom,
- great fear,
- devilish,
- severe,
- nervousness,
- flinch,
- anxious anticipation,
- mind,
- majestic,
- Horrification,
- qualm,
- fearfully,
- capture,
- go to pieces,
- tastelessness,
- grim,
- catch,
- revere,
- qualms,
- painful,
- cheerlessness,
- second thoughts,
- zeal,
- joylessness,
- discomfort,
- outrageous,
- possibly,
- think,
- recoil from,
- anxious concern,
- monstrous,
- quail at,
- heinous,
- quiver,
- cankerworm of care,
- villainous,
- discomposure,
- funny feeling,
- morbid,
- distress,
- Fiendish,
- dreadfully,
- have in mind,
- idolise,
- strain,
- terribly,
- hair-raising,
- feeling,
- hesitation,
- valiant,
- blench at.
Paraphrases for Dread:
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Forward Entailment
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
fear.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
Fears.
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Verb, base form
fear.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
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Independent
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
angst, anguish, apprehension, horror, terror, trepidation.
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Noun, singular or mass
Homophones for Dread:
- diderot, death rate, deaerate, druid, de-aerate, dooryard, dried-out, data rate, dryad, Drouth, die-hard, dart, dirty, derrida, dreaded, dry-eyed, dirt, dredd, derate, deteriorate, dard, dowered, dried, dry-rot, die hard, draw out, dotard, do-or-die, dehydrated, deathrate, detroit, deride, dry rot, dry out, diehard, DRED, dearth, diorite, dorado, dehydrate.
Hypernym for Dread:
v.
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emotion
panic.
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emotion
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