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dreadfulness

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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • \ˈdred-fəl\
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • \ˈdred-fəl\

Definition of dreadfulness word

  • noun dreadfulness The characteristic of being dreadful. 1

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Parts of speech for Dreadfulness

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

dreadfulness popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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Synonyms for dreadfulness

noun dreadfulness

  • awfulness — The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.
  • horror — an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.
  • misery — wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
  • ghastly — shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
  • grewsome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.

Antonyms for dreadfulness

noun dreadfulness

  • beauty — Beauty is the state or quality of being beautiful.

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