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dread v. 1 fear, be afraid of, apprehend, anticipate, flinch, shrink
or recoil from, cringe or quail or blench or wince at, view with
horror or alarm: She dreads any kind of surgery.
--n. 2 fear, fright, fearfulness, trepidation, apprehension,
apprehensiveness, uneasiness, anticipation, alarm, nervousness,
qualm, queasiness, misgiving, dismay, worry, anxiety,
consternation, concern, distress, perturbation, disquiet,
aversion, horror, terror, panic, Colloq cold feet, butterflies
(in the stomach), the jitters; Slang the heebie-jeebies, the
willies, the collywobbles: I regarded the history exam with
dread.
--adj. 3 feared, dreaded, dreadful, terrifying, terrible:
Before us, breathing fire, was the dread dragon of the Druids.
dreadful adj. 1 bad, awful, terrible, Colloq rotten, Slang lousy: That
TV soap opera is simply dreadful. 2 grievous, dire, horrible,
horrendous, horrifying, horrid, monstrous, fearful, feared,
frightful, dread, frightening, shocking, alarming, appalling,
fearsome, hideous, ghastly, atrocious, heinous, wicked, evil,
iniquitous, villainous, flagitious, fiendish, diabolical,
devilish, demonic, malevolent, maleficent, malefic, Colloq
scary: They did the most dreadful things to political
prisoners.
dream n. 1 reverie, day-dream, delusion, fantasy, hallucination,
illusion, vision, mirage, pipedream, (flight of) fancy,
speculation: When I awoke I realized that my winning the
lottery had just been a dream.
--v. 2 imagine, fancy, conjure up, hallucinate: I dreamt I
dwelt in marble halls.
dreamer n. fantasizer, visionary, idealist, romantic, romanticist,
idealizer, Utopian; day-dreamer, escapist, fantasizer,
star-gazer: If you think people change, you're a dreamer.
dreamlike adj. unreal, fantastic, unbelievable, phantasmagoric(al),
hallucinatory or hallucinative or hallucinational, surreal,
delusionary or delusional, illusionary or illusional, delusive
or delusory, illusory or illusive, insubstantial or