- Types Of Speech
- You can use dread as a noun or as a verb in a sentence.
- About Dread
- A 1 syllables noun and 5 letters with the letters a, d, e, and r, 3 consonants, 2 vowels and 1 syllables with the middle letter e. Dread starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters d, dr, dre, drea, and the ending characters are d, ad, ead, read, ..
- Definition
- Fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
- Origin/Roots
- Middle English
- School Grade
- Dread is set as a grade one word that starts with d, ends with d, 1 syllables, 2 vowels and 5 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is dread a scrabble word? A 7 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Dread in Pig Latin is said as "eaddray or eaddrway".
- Unigram
- d | r | e | a | d
- Bigram
- dr | re | ea | ad
- Trigram
- dre | rea | ead
- Quadrigram
- drea | read
- Word Gram
- Noun Examples
- fearful expectation or anticipation;
"the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
- Verb Examples
- be afraid or scared of;
be frightened of;
"I fear the winters in Moscow";
"We should not fear the Communists!"
Synonym | Definition |
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Abject Fear | |
Affright | cause fear in "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me" |
Agitation | the act of agitating something causing it to move around (usually vigorously) |
Alarm | a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event |
Alarm System | |
All Overs | |
Amazing | inspiring awe or admiration or wonder "New York is an amazing city" "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight" "the awesome complexity of the universe" "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville "We |
Angst | an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom |
Anguish | extreme mental distress |
Annoyance | the act of troubling or annoying someone |
View all cognitive synonyms for Dread
Anagram | Definition |
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Adder | small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia |
Dread | fearful expectation or anticipation "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" |
View English words with the unique letters used in dread. Words With The Letters Ader
Word | Definition |
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Apprehend | get the meaning of something "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?" |
Dread | fearful expectation or anticipation "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" |
Fear | an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) |
Quail At |
Word | Definition |
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Fear | an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) |
Fearfulness | the trait of being afraid |
Fright | an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) |
Word | Definition |
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Boding | a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" |
Chill | coldness due to a cold environment |
Foreboding | an unfavorable omen |
Gloom | a feeling of melancholy apprehension |
Gloominess | excessive sadness and mournfulness |
Pall | hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) |
Premonition | an early warning about a future event |
Presentiment | a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" |
Somberness | a manner that is serious and solemn |
Suspense | an uncertain cognitive state; "the matter remained in suspense for several years" |
View All Hyponyms For Dread
Title | Type | Description |
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Negative Feelings | Describe dread | A word list of negative feeling words and the best English words to describe negative emotions. Emotional negative words... read more |
Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
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Tread (5 letters) | 6 | 6 | trade | ||
Trade (5 letters) | 6 | 6 | trade | ||
Reward (6 letters) | 10 +3 | 10 +3 | reward | ||
Darter (6 letters) | 7 | 7 | aderrt | ||
Adder (5 letters) | 7 | 7 | rdaed | ||
Dasyure (7 letters) | 11 +4 | 11 +4 | dasyure | ||
Wader (5 letters) | 9 +2 | 9 +2 | dewar | ||
Ardea (5 letters) | 6 | 6 | aader | ||
Drawers (7 letters) | 11 +4 | 11 +4 | dawresr | ||
Dewar (5 letters) | 9 +2 | 9 +2 | dewar | ||
Drawer (6 letters) | 10 +3 | 10 +3 | reward | ||
Rau Sed (7 letters) | |||||
Retread (7 letters) | 8 +1 | 8 +1 | retread | ||
Waders (6 letters) | 10 +3 | 10 +3 | seward | ||
Address (7 letters) | 9 +2 | 9 +2 | address | ||
Reader (6 letters) | 7 | 7 | reread | ||
Read (4 letters) | 5 | 5 | dear | ||
Dare (4 letters) | 5 | 5 | dear | ||
Advert (6 letters) | 10 +3 | 11 +4 | advert | ||
Dread (5 letters) | 7 | 7 | rdaed | ||
Red Sea (7 letters) | |||||
Dear (4 letters) | 5 | 5 | dear | ||
Dearest (7 letters) | 8 +1 | 8 +1 | dearest | ||
Steward (7 letters) | 11 +4 | 11 +4 | steward | ||
Deary (5 letters) | 9 +2 | 8 +1 | ready |
Dread Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With D
- Spelled With / Contains Letters