Dread

Verb

 * 1) To fear greatly.
 * 2) To anticipate with fear.

Noun

 * 1) A great fear.
 * 2) Somebody or something dreaded.
 * 3) A Rastafarian.
 * 4)  dreadlock

Adjective

 * 1) Terrible; greatly feared.
 * 2)  Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

Adjectives for Dread
despising; wondrous; superstitious; half-conscious; silent; mysterious; contagious; ignorant; sickening; apprehensive; maddening; unreasonable; secret; speechless; mysterious; lurking; shrinking; shadowy; slavish; inexplicable; haunting; unimaginable; nameless; inexpressible; morbid somber; fresh; blank; irrational; racking stark; mutual; constant; unnamed; obscene unnatural; foolish; abnormal; salutary oppressive; decorous; ill-defined; vague shuddering; subconscious; feminine; incomprehensible; grinding; popular; nervous; pious; unformulated; poignant; supernatural; recurrent; indefinable; unfathomable; overwhelming; inspiring.

Verbs for Dread
attend with—; awaken—; cause—; cure of—; diagnose—; disguise—; dwell in—; hide in—of; induce—; nourish—; obsess with—; oppress by—; overcome—; produce —; provoke—; put away—; regard with—; relinquish—; ripen into—; shake with—; wrap in—; —causes; —dogs; —inspires; —overcomes.

Adverbs for Dread
righteously; vaguely; habitually; super-stitiously; ignorantly; apprehensively; unreasonably; secretly; speechlessly; shrink-ingly; inexplicably; hauntingly; unimaginably; inexpressibly; morbidly; somberly; irrationally; starkly; mutually; constantly; unnaturally; foolishly; oppressively; vaguely; nervously; piously; poignantly; super-naturally; recurrently; indefinably; unfathomably; overwhelmingly.

Synonyms for Dread
fear, horror, terror, panic, fright, awe, dismay, alarm, consternation, apprehension, trepidation, anxiety, timidity, misgiving, cowardice.

Antonyms for Dread
boldness, bravery, intrepidity, calmness, courage, confidence.

Derived terms

 * dreadable
 * dreadworthy

Thesaurus
abject fear, affright, agitation, alarm, all-overs, angst, anguish, anticipate, anticipation, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, appalling, apprehend, apprehension, apprehensiveness, astounding, aversion, awe, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, be afraid, blue funk, boredom, cankerworm of care, care, cheerlessness, cliff-hanging, cold feet, concern, concernment, consternation, contemplate, cowardice, dire, direful, discomfort, discomposure, discontent, dislike, dismay, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, dissatisfaction, distress, disturbance, dreaded, dreadful, dullness, emptiness, ennui, envisage, existential woe, expect, expectant waiting, eye askance, face, fear, feared, fearfulness, fell, flatness, flinch, foreboding, forebodingness, foresee, formidable, fright, funk, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grimness, grisly, gruesome, have in mind, have qualms, hideous, hope, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrification, horrifying, horror, inquietude, joylessness, lack of pleasure, macabre, malaise, misgive, misgiving, morbid, nausea, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, nongratification, nonsatisfaction, overanxiety, painfulness, panic, panic fear, perturbation, pessimism, phobia, pins and needles, presume, pucker, qualm, queasiness, redoubtable, savorlessness, scare, schrecklich, shocking, shrink from, sit upon thorns, solicitude, spleen, staleness, stampede, stand aghast, stew, strain, suspense, take for granted, tastelessness, tediousness, tedium, tension, terrible, terrific, terrifying, terror, the heebie-jeebies, think, tremendous, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, uncertainty, uncomfortableness, unease, uneasiness, unhappiness, unholy dread, unpleasure, unquietness, unsatisfaction, upset, vexation, vexation of spirit, waiting, worry, zeal

Etymology
dreden:, from drædan:, aphetic form of adrædan:, ondrædan:, from and-: + rædan:. Akin to intratan:. More at read.

Verb

 * Bulgarian: страхувам се
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * French: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: опасявам се
 * Finnish: odottaa pelolla


 * French: ,
 * German: befürchten

Noun

 * Armenian: սարսափ,,  սոսկում
 * Bulgarian: ,боязън
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic: oillt, uamhann , uabhas , eagal , sgrath
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:


 * Dutch: gevreesde,  gevreesde
 * Finnish:

Anagrams

 * adder
 * dared
 * readd