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dreadful

/ˈdrɛd.fəl/

dreadfuladjective

more dreadful

Comp.

most dreadful

Super.

/ˈdrɛd.fəl/

Translations

ужасный

The weather today is dreadful.

Погода сегодня ужасная.

страшный

He had a dreadful nightmare last night.

У него был страшный кошмар прошлой ночью.

кошмарный

The movie was dreadful and not worth watching.

Фильм был кошмарный и не стоил просмотра.

Additional translations

жуткий

отвратительный

ужасающий

Definitions

Causing great fear or apprehension; terrible.

The dreadful storm left the town in ruins.

Extremely bad or unpleasant.

She had a dreadful headache that lasted all day.

Filled with or characterized by dread; fearful or apprehensive.

She cast a dreadful glance at the ominous clouds gathering above.

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dreadfulnoun

dreadfuls

Countable noun, chiefly historical/literary, as in "penny dreadful"; occasionally used in plural "dreadfuls".

Definitions

A sensational or cheaply produced story, magazine, or novel, especially a nineteenth-century 'penny dreadful'.

Victorian readers gobbled up the lurid dreadfuls sold on street corners.

dreadfuladverb

/ˈdrɛd.fəl/

Informal/colloquial intensifier usage, chiefly British

Definitions

Used informally as an intensifier meaning "very" or "extremely".

I'm dreadful sorry for the inconvenience.

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