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Antonyms for dread
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
dread
Alarm, according to its derivation all'arme, "to arms," is an arousing to meet and repel danger, and may be quite consistent with true courage. Affright and fright express sudden fear which, for the time at least, overwhelms courage. The sentinel discovers with alarm the sudden approach of the enemy; the unarmed villagers view it with affright. Apprehension, disquietude, dread, misgiving, and solicitude are in anticipation of danger; consternation, dismay, and terror are overwhelming fear, generally in the actual presence of that which is terrible, though these words also may have an anticipative force. Timidity is a quality, habit, or condition, a readiness to be affected with fear. A person of great timidity is constantly liable to needless alarm and even terror. Compare FEAR.
Antonyms:
assurance, calmness, confidence, repose, securitySynonyms:
affright, alarm, apprehension, consternation, dismay, disquietude, fear, fright, misgiving, panic, solicitude, terror, timidityPreposition:
Alarm was felt in the camp, among the soldiers, at the news.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
dreadnoun
Antonyms:
courage, confidence, welcome, assuranceSynonyms:
fear, shuddering, terror, horror, alarm, intimidation, apprehension
Princeton's WordNet
apprehension, apprehensiveness, dreadadjective
fearful expectation or anticipation
"the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
Antonyms:
unalarmingSynonyms:
apprehension, pinch, savvy, collar, misgiving, arrest, taking into custody, understanding, catch, apprehensiveness, discernmentawful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terribleverb
causing fear or dread or terror
"the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
Antonyms:
unalarmingfear, dreadverb
be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
"I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
Antonyms:
unalarming
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
dreadnoun
Synonyms:
apprehension, fear, awe (reverential fear)dreadverb
How to use dread in a sentence?
But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition.
Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
When we opened for the first time after the flood, it started just dead. And you start to have that sense of dread creep in. Did I do all this, did I sink all this money in, have I started this business and people can't even get here anymore?
You start the day you think it will play out the way you saw in your head but then you discover the day is mostly just dread It’s not like what I read
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?
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