English Dictionary

dreadful

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdɹɛd.fʊl/

形容詞

過剰級 廃用

Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky. / (hyperbolic) Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier). / (obsolete) Awesome, awe-inspiring, causing feelings of reverence.

日本語の意味

本当に恐ろしい、凄まじく不気味な、または不安感を与える状態を表す。 / （誇張表現として）非常に嫌な、ひどいほど悪い、または形容詞として強調の意味で使われる。 / （古風な意味で）畏敬の念を抱かせる、恐れ多いほど印象深い状態を表す。

A dreadful silence fell over the seaside town after the storm, as if everyone had vanished.

嵐のあと、海辺の町にぞっとするほど恐ろしい静けさが訪れ、まるで誰もいなくなったかのようだった。

意味（1）

Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky.

...Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning...

意味（2）

(hyperbolic) Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier).

Here some... Look dreadful gay in their own sparkling blood.

意味（3）

(obsolete) Awesome, awe-inspiring, causing feelings of reverence.

意味（4）

Scared, afraid, frightened.

Shame to the slothful and woe to the weak one. Death to the dreadful who turn to flee. Blood to the tearing, the talon’d, the beaked one. Timor Mortis are We.

意味（5）

Timid, easily frightened.

意味（6）

Reverential, full of pious awe.

more dreadful （ comparative ）

most dreadful （ superlative ）