Antonyms for dread
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1. 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, security

   Synonyms:
   affright, alarm, apprehension, consternation, dismay, disquietude, fear, fright, misgiving, panic, solicitude, terror, timidity

   Preposition:
   Alarm was felt in the camp, among the soldiers, at the news.

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1. dreadnoun

   Antonyms:
   courage, confidence, welcome, assurance

   Synonyms:
   fear, shuddering, terror, horror, alarm, intimidation, apprehension

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1. apprehension, apprehensiveness, dreadadjective

   fearful expectation or anticipation

   "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

   Synonyms:
   apprehension, pinch, savvy, collar, misgiving, arrest, taking into custody, understanding, catch, apprehensiveness, discernment

2. awful, 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:
   unalarming

3. fear, dreadverb

   be afraid or scared of; be frightened of

   "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

   Synonyms:
   reverence, venerate, fear, revere

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1. dreadnoun

   Synonyms:
   apprehension, fear, awe (reverential fear)

2. dreadverb

   Synonyms:
   fear, apprehend

How to use dread in a sentence?

1. John Locke:

   The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

2. Nancy Astor:

   I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

3. Jane Webber:

   Dread is a combination of not knowing, fearing and terror, do you go pick up groceries ? Are gloves enough ? Should I touch the mail ? Your child sneezes. You're living in fear every moment.

4. Edith Wharton:

   Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

5. Mother Teresa:

   Please choose the way of peace…In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

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