Synonyms for dread

Other words for “dread”, grouped by meaning.

We found 15 synonyms for “dread”. The most common are apprehension, apprehensiveness, fear, awful, dire.

noun fearful expectation or anticipation

Synonymsapprehension apprehensiveness

verb be afraid or scared of; be frightened of

Synonymsfear

adjective causing fear or dread or terror

Synonymsawful dire direful dreaded dreadful fearful fearsome frightening horrendous horrific terrible

Similaralarming

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University

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