Definitions
extremely disagreeable and unpleasant
Word origin
From Middle English dredful, dredfull, dredeful (also dreful). By surface analysis, dread + -ful.
Used in a sentence
“"...Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning..."”
“Here some... Look dreadful gay in their own sparkling blood.”
“This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Shockingly poor”8 letters
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