dreadful: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words

Suffixes of dreadful

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    dreadfully

    • adverb of a dreadful kind
      horribly; awfully.
      • there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning
    • adverb in a dreadful manner
      dismally.
      • as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed

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    dreadfulness

    • noun a quality of extreme unpleasantness
      awfulness; horridness; terribleness.

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    dreadful

    • adjective satellite causing fear or dread or terror
      direful; horrific; fearful; frightening; terrible; dread; dire; horrendous; awful; dreaded; fearsome.
      • 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
    • adjective satellite exceptionally bad or displeasing
      atrocious; terrible; unspeakable; awful; abominable; painful.
      • atrocious taste
      • abominable workmanship
      • an awful voice
      • dreadful manners
      • a painful performance
      • terrible handwriting
      • an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room





About Prefix and Suffix Words

This page lists all the words created by adding prefixes, suffixes to the word `dreadful`. For each word, youwill notice a blue bar below the word. The longer the blue bar below a word, the more common/popular the word. Very short blue bars indicate rare usage.

While some of the words are direct derivations of the word `dreadful`, some are not.

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