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dreaded

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • //ˈdɹɛ.dɪd//
  • //ˈdɹɛ.dəd//

Causing fear, dread, or terror.

adjective

  1. 1

    Causing fear, dread, or terror.

    I have got the dreaded flu.

    Young and old a dreaded lot/In knots our rivals tied.

  2. 2

    Having or wearing dreadlocks.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of dreadsimple past and past participle of dread

Forms

comparative
more dreaded
superlative
most dreaded
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).