| dreadful | 1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." "For all things are less dreadful than they seem." (Wordsworth) 3. Inspiring awe or reverence; awful. "God's dreadful law." Synonym: Fearful, frightful, terrific, terrible, horrible, horrid, formidable, tremendous, awful, venerable. See Frightful. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| dreadless | 1. Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart. "The dreadless angel." 2. Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure. " safe in his dreadless den." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| talion dread | The symbolic anxieties that represent the unconscious dread of penalties for an act. (05 Mar 2000) |
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