Synonyms 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.

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

   Antonyms:
   assurance, calmness, confidence, repose, security

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

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1. dreadnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   courage, confidence, welcome, assurance

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1. apprehension, apprehensiveness, dreadadjective

   fearful expectation or anticipation

   "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

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

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

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!"

   Synonyms:
   reverence, venerate, fear, revere

   Antonyms:
   unalarming

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1. dreadadjective

   Synonyms:
   frightful, terrible, horrible, dreadful

2. dreadadjective

   Synonyms:
   venerable, awful

3. dreadverb

   Synonyms:
   fear greatly

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1. dreadnoun

   Synonyms:
   apprehension, fear, awe (reverential fear)

2. dreadverb

   Synonyms:
   fear, apprehend

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1. List of paraphrases for "dread":

   blondie, redoubt, horror, fear, anguish, terror

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1. Jean Paul:

   Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

2. Dame Rebecca West:

   Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen.

3. William Shakespeare:

   O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell Othello's occupation's gone

4. Jonathan Cane:

   Listen to your body and the message it’s sending. Make sure you’re thinking of running as something you want to do, not something you dread. Embrace it and remember how lucky you are to be out there.

5. North Carolina:

   And I will tell you, as much as I am willing to defend our liberty at all costs, there's nothing that I would dread doing more than having to pick up arms against a fellow American. And the way that we can have recourse against that is if we all passionately demand that we have election security in all 50 states.