English Dictionary

dreadful

adj

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.

The horror movie I watched last night was dreadful.

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.

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.