379 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ dɹˈɛdfə͡l], [ dɹˈɛdfə‍l], [ d_ɹ_ˈɛ_d_f_əl]

Similar words for dreadful:

• all (adjective)
• amazing (adjective)
• appalling (adjective)
• atrocious (adjective)
• awesome (adjective)
• awful (adjective)
• bad (adjective)
• creepy (adjective)
• deathly (adjective)
• deplorable (adjective)
• dire (adjective)
• direful (adjective)
• disastrous (adjective)
• fearful (adjective)
• flagrant (adjective)
• frightening (adjective)
• frightful (adjective)
• frightful/frightening (adjective)
• grievous (adjective)
• grisly (adjective)
• hideous (adjective)
• horrendous (adjective)
• horrible (adjective)
• horrible/horrendous/horrid (adjective)
• horrid (adjective)
• incommunicable (adjective)
• indefinable (adjective)
• inexpressible (adjective)
• insufferable (adjective)
• macabre (adjective)
• monstrous (adjective)
• nefarious (adjective)
• offensive (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• painful (adjective)
• regrettable (adjective)
• terrible (adjective)
• terrific (adjective)
• tragic (adjective)
• tremendous (adjective)
• undescribable (adjective)
• ungodly (adjective)
• unholy (adjective)
• unspeakable (adjective)
• unutterable (adjective)
• weird (adjective)
• wicked (adjective)
• woeful (adjective)
• alarming (noun)
• atrocious (noun)
• dread (noun)
• dreaded (noun)
• dreadful (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• terrible (noun)
• depressing (verb)
• other synonyms
• insufferable

Paraphrases for dreadful

Homophones for dreadful

Synonyms for Dreadful:

• adj.

  • all (adjective)
  • dreadful.
  • amazing (adjective)
  • awesome.
  • appalling (adjective)
  • dis-maying,
  • un nerving,
  • most unnerving,
  • un-nerving,
  • endest,
  • dis maying,
  • dis heartening,
  • grodier,
  • more scaring,
  • most scaring,
  • more unnerving,
  • more dismaying,
  • more daunting,
  • grodiest,
  • most disheartening,
  • more disheartening,
  • most daunting,
  • dis-heartening,
  • most petrifying,
  • Ender,
  • more petrifying,
  • most dismaying.
  • atrocious (adjective)
  • beastliest,
  • dis-gusting,
  • beastlier,
  • dis gusting,
  • most horrifying,
  • de-testable,
  • more horrifying,
  • most godawful,
  • de testable,
  • foul,
  • more godawful.
  • awesome (adjective)
  • awe inspiring,
  • most stupefying,
  • impressive,
  • mindblowing,
  • more stupefying,
  • striking,
  • fearsome,
  • aweinspiring,
  • more nervous,
  • mind blowing,
  • over-whelming,
  • over whelming,
  • grandest.
  • awful (adjective)
  • horrid,
  • unpleasant,
  • repulsive,
  • ghastly,
  • frightful.
  • bad (adjective)
  • sad,
  • bottom out,
  • the pits,
  • most inferior,
  • not good,
  • poorer,
  • junky,
  • cruddy.
  • creepy (adjective)
  • hairraising,
  • most itching,
  • most shuddersome,
  • hair raising,
  • more itching,
  • more shuddersome.
  • deathly (adjective)
  • Defunctive,
  • corpselike.
  • deplorable (adjective)
  • scandalous,
  • opprobrious,
  • wretched.
  • dire (adjective)
  • more oppressing,
  • ruinous,
  • un-fortunate,
  • more scowling,
  • most scowling,
  • re doubtable,
  • portentous,
  • re-doubtable,
  • un fortunate,
  • most oppressing.
  • direful (adjective)
  • unpropitious,
  • inauspicious,
  • Ill-boding.
  • disastrous (adjective)
  • un-favorable,
  • ill starred,
  • un favorable,
  • ill fated,
  • illstarred,
  • illfated,
  • ill-starred.
  • fearful (adjective)
  • sub-lime,
  • un earthly,
  • un-earthlier,
  • un earthliest,
  • un-earthly,
  • un earthlier,
  • sub lime,
  • un-earthliest.
  • flagrant (adjective)
  • noticeable,
  • heinous,
  • stick out like sore thumb,
  • ostentatious,
  • undisguised,
  • bare-faced,
  • egregious,
  • flagitous,
  • out and out,
  • shameless.
  • frightening (adjective)
  • nightmarish.
  • frightful (adjective)
  • dis agreeable,
  • dis-agreeable.
  • frightful/frightening (adjective)
  • dis-quieting,
  • more grabber,
  • more traumatic,
  • in-conceivable,
  • most traumatic,
  • in conceivable,
  • dis quieting,
  • most grabber.
  • grievous (adjective)
  • more heart rending,
  • most heart rending,
  • more afflicting,
  • most afflicting,
  • up setting,
  • more wounding,
  • most heart-rending,
  • most wounding,
  • more heart-rending,
  • heart rending,
  • up-setting.
  • grisly (adjective)
  • yucky,
  • grisly,
  • Blood-stained.
  • hideous (adjective)
  • most beast,
  • un comely,
  • more beast,
  • un-comely.
  • horrendous (adjective)
  • more horrifyin,
  • most horrifyin.
  • horrible (adjective)
  • fairiest,
  • most sickie,
  • fairier,
  • more sickie.
  • horrible/horrendous/horrid (adjective)
  • un-kindest,
  • un kindest,
  • un-kinder,
  • un kinder,
  • un kind,
  • un-kind,
  • scarier.
  • horrid (adjective)
  • louer,
  • louest.
  • incommunicable (adjective)
  • in-communicable,
  • most description,
  • in communicable,
  • more description.
  • indefinable (adjective)
  • in definable,
  • in-definable.
  • inexpressible (adjective)
  • in expressible,
  • in-expressible.
  • insufferable (adjective)
  • in supportable,
  • un endurable,
  • un-endurable,
  • in sufferable,
  • in-sufferable,
  • in-supportable.
  • macabre (adjective)
  • ghostly,
  • spookish.
  • monstrous (adjective)
  • mis created,
  • un canny,
  • mis-created,
  • un-cannier,
  • un cannier,
  • un-canniest,
  • un-canny,
  • un canniest,
  • most miscreated,
  • more miscreated,
  • in human,
  • in-human,
  • un usual,
  • most teratoid,
  • more teratoid,
  • Miscreated,
  • un-usual.
  • nefarious (adjective)
  • de generate,
  • de-generate.
  • offensive (adjective)
  • embarrassing,
  • offensive.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • anguished,
  • grievous,
  • hideous,
  • grody,
  • deathly,
  • horrible,
  • awful,
  • defying description,
  • nefarious,
  • deplorable,
  • weird,
  • formidable,
  • tragic,
  • Lou,
  • direful,
  • Teratoid,
  • terrible,
  • macabre,
  • bad,
  • heart-rending,
  • sickie,
  • flagrant,
  • morbid,
  • dire,
  • insufferable,
  • the end,
  • fearful,
  • godawful,
  • painful,
  • something else,
  • tremendous,
  • real gone,
  • distressing,
  • shocking,
  • horrific,
  • grabber,
  • mondo,
  • terrific,
  • woeful,
  • creepy,
  • regrettable,
  • traumatic,
  • shuddersome,
  • ungodly,
  • zero cool,
  • great big,
  • appalling,
  • disastrous,
  • horrifyin,
  • extra ordinary.
  • painful (adjective)
  • in-flamed,
  • in flamed,
  • most saddening,
  • smarting,
  • more saddening,
  • nagging,
  • un-comfortable,
  • more throbbing,
  • most throbbing,
  • un comfortable,
  • extremely bad,
  • more hurting.
  • regrettable (adjective)
  • un-happy,
  • un happier,
  • un happy,
  • illadvised,
  • dis-appointing,
  • un happiest,
  • dis appointing.
  • terrible (adjective)
  • unwelcome,
  • more dreaded,
  • most dreaded,
  • in-convenient,
  • un-welcome,
  • in convenient,
  • inconvenient,
  • un welcome.
  • terrific (adjective)
  • more terrorizing,
  • most terrorizing,
  • more agitating,
  • most agitating.
  • tragic (adjective)
  • de-solate,
  • most anguished,
  • most crushing,
  • de solate,
  • more anguished,
  • more crushing.
  • tremendous (adjective)
  • extra-ordinary,
  • most mondo,
  • more humongous,
  • in credible,
  • in-credible,
  • blimpest,
  • more cracking,
  • more mondo,
  • more whopper,
  • most humongous,
  • blimper,
  • most cracking,
  • whalest,
  • most whopper,
  • whaler.
  • undescribable (adjective)
  • un describable,
  • un-describable.
  • ungodly (adjective)
  • un godliest,
  • un-believable,
  • un-godliest,
  • un seemly,
  • un-conscionable,
  • un-seemlier,
  • un conscionable,
  • un reasonable,
  • un-godlier,
  • un godlier,
  • un-godly,
  • un-reasonable,
  • un-seemliest,
  • un godly,
  • un seemliest,
  • un-civilized,
  • un believable,
  • un civilized,
  • un seemlier.
  • unholy (adjective)
  • un-holy,
  • un holy,
  • un-holiest,
  • un holiest,
  • un holier,
  • un-holier,
  • unholy.
  • unspeakable (adjective)
  • inexpressible,
  • undescribable,
  • beyond words,
  • indefinable,
  • unutterable,
  • Incommunicable.
  • unutterable (adjective)
  • un utterable,
  • un-utterable.
  • weird (adjective)
  • farout,
  • super natural,
  • super-natural,
  • in-scrutable,
  • un-couth,
  • in scrutable,
  • magical,
  • un couth.
  • wicked (adjective)
  • wicked.
  • woeful (adjective)
  • more agonized,
  • Racked,
  • most tortured,
  • more grieving,
  • more tortured,
  • most agonized,
  • heartsick,
  • most grieving,
  • most racked,
  • more racked.

• n.

  •
  • sorry,
  • such as it is,
  • utterly,
  • sadly,
  • hopelessly.
  •
  • fear.
  • alarming (noun)
  • alarming.
  • atrocious (noun)
  • atrocious.
  • dread (noun)
  • dread.
  • dreaded (noun)
  • dreaded.
  • dreadful (noun)
  • frightening,
  • unspeakable,
  • abominable,
  • horrendous.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • property.
  • terrible (noun)
  • poor.

• v.

  • depressing (verb)
  • dismal.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • hellish,
  • scary,
  • god-awful,
  • scabby,
  • verminous,
  • putrid,
  • sick,
  • stinking,
  • murderous,
  • bruising,
  • vile.
  •
  • redoubtable,
  • unchristian.
  • insufferable
  • insupportable.

Paraphrases for Dreadful:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    appalling, bad, dire, fearsome, frightful, horrendous, horrific, horrifying, terrible.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    terrible.
  • Interjection
    terrible.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    alarming, astonishing, astounding, awesome, barbaric, barbarous, brutal, calamitous, catastrophic, chilling, creepy, cruel, dangerous, desperate, disgraceful, disgusting, dismal, distressing, dramatic, drastic, dreaded, egregious, enormous, evil, excruciating, extraordinary, fatal, fateful, fearful, god-awful, grim, harmful, harrowing, harsh, hateful, huge, impermissible, inclement, nefarious, obnoxious, ominous, painful, pathetic, pernicious, pitiful, redoubtable, regrettable, repugnant, rotten, sad, serious, severe, shameful, sinister, staggering, terrific, unfortunate, unpleasant, unspeakable, vicious, vile, wicked, dorky.
  • Interjection
    awesome.
  • Verb, past tense
    Sucked.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    abhorrent, abominable, abysmal, atrocious, daunting, deadly, deplorable, despicable, detestable, devastating, disastrous, formidable, foul, frightening, ghastly, gruesome, heinous, hideous, horrid, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, miserable, monstrous, odious, outrageous, poor, repulsive, scary, shocking, terrifying, tragic, tremendous, ugly, wretched.
  • Interjection
    pathetic, terrific.

Homophones for Dreadful:

• dirt ball, dirty pool, daredevil, dreadfully.