814 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ dɹˈɛd], [ dɹˈɛd], [ d_ɹ_ˈɛ_d]

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)

Paraphrases for dread

Homophones for dread

Hypernyms for dread

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.
  • horrendous (adjective)
  • more horrifyin,
  • most horrifyin.
  • horrible, terrifying (adjective)
  • frightful,
  • shuddersome,
  • awe-inspiring,
  • creepy.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • traumatic,
  • horrifyin,
  • grabber,
  • terrible.
  • terrible (adjective)
  • awe inspiring,
  • most dreaded,
  • inconvenient,
  • un fortunate,
  • un pleasant,
  • un-welcome,
  • un-pleasant,
  • beastliest,
  • un-fortunate,
  • in convenient,
  • beastlier,
  • unwelcome,
  • un welcome,
  • in-convenient,
  • aweinspiring,
  • more dreaded.

• n.

  •
  • have a lot on your mind,
  • upset yourself,
  • worry,
  • hardly dare (to) breathe.
  •
  • funk,
  • scare.
  •
  • chilling,
  • menacing,
  • eerie,
  • wonder,
  • excite,
  • spooky,
  • feelings,
  • amaze,
  • awesome.
  • alarming (noun)
  • alarming.
  • angst (noun)
  • mid life crisi,
  • mis giving,
  • midlife crisi,
  • mis-giving,
  • mid life crisis,
  • weltschmerzes,
  • mid-life crisi.
  • anxiety (noun)
  • 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.
  • apprehension (noun)
  • 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.
  • aversion (noun)
  • 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.
  • awe (noun)
  • re spect,
  • re-gard,
  • re spects,
  • re-spects,
  • re-spect,
  • re gards.
  • bugbear (noun)
  • boogeymen,
  • loupgarou,
  • loup garou,
  • loupsgarous,
  • loups garous,
  • Loups-garous.
  • consternation (noun)
  • muddlements,
  • be-wilderments,
  • dis traction,
  • be wilderments,
  • be-wilderment,
  • trepidities,
  • dis-tractions,
  • be wilderment,
  • dis-traction,
  • dis tractions.
  • dire (noun)
  • dire.
  • direful (noun)
  • direful.
  • dismay (noun)
  • blahs,
  • the blahs,
  • disheartenments,
  • disillusionments,
  • disheartenment,
  • up set,
  • disillusionment.
  • dread (noun)
  • dreadful,
  • dreaded,
  • horrific,
  • fearful,
  • horrendous,
  • fearsome,
  • frightening,
  • awful.
  • expectation (noun)
  • envisioning,
  • presumption,
  • expectancy,
  • uncertainty,
  • expectation,
  • suspense,
  • pessimism,
  • anticipation,
  • contemplation.
  • fear (noun)
  • phobia,
  • cowardice,
  • affright,
  • faintheartedness,
  • jitters,
  • spinelessness,
  • stage fright,
  • timidity,
  • creeps,
  • agitation,
  • goose bumps.
  • feelings (noun)
  • emotion.
  • foreboding (noun)
  • 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.
  • fright (noun)
  • quakings.
  • ghost (noun)
  • bugbear.
  • hopelessness (noun)
  • desperation.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • 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.
  • phobia (noun)
  • thing abouts.
  • stress (noun)
  • 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.
  • uneasiness (noun)
  • 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)
  • quake,
  • Misdoubt,
  • shrink from,
  • have cold feet,
  • shudder,
  • be afraid,
  • tremble,
  • apprehend,
  • cringe.
  • emotion (verb)
  • dread.
  • expect (verb)
  • assume,
  • envision,
  • foreknow,
  • await,
  • envisage,
  • anticipate,
  • imagine,
  • presuppose,
  • expect,
  • foresee,
  • suspect,
  • infer,
  • presume,
  • gather,
  • forebode,
  • surmise,
  • deduce,
  • contemplate.
  • fear (verb)
  • 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:

  •
  • agonize,
  • fearfulness,
  • obsess,
  • brood,
  • dare,
  • agonise,
  • wonderment,
  • fear for,
  • fret,
  • panic attack,
  • the willies,
  • work up,
  • technophobia,
  • sweat,
  • fuss,
  • freeze up,
  • cold feet,
  • churn.
  •
  • astonishment,
  • chill,
  • awe,
  • trauma,
  • hysteria,
  • amazement.
  •
  • marvel,
  • tension,
  • flap,
  • admiration,
  • wobble.
  • fear
  • 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.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    fear, fright.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    fear.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    Fears.
  • Verb, base form
    fear.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    anxiety, distress, scared.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    angst, anguish, apprehension, horror, terror, trepidation.

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.

  • emotion
    panic.