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dreadfulness

/dred-fuhl/US // ˈdrɛd fəl //UK // (ˈdrɛdfʊl) //

可怕性,畏惧,可怕,恐怖

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
    • : inspiring awe or reverence.
    • : extremely bad, unpleasant, or ugly: dreadful cooking; a dreadful hat.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    British.

    • : penny dreadful.
    • : a periodical given to highly sensational matter.

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Examples

  • I guess the reason it needs a lot of chocolate is the actual cookie is rather dreadful.

  • As a glasses-noob suffering from the dreadful fog myself, I turned to the internet for answers.

  • She is a threat to its isolation, its purity, and its unknowable and dreadful secrets.

  • If there were to be any sort of silver lining to dreadful circumstances, this was it.

  • Toronto’s offense checks in just outside the top 10 for the full season, and it’s been dreadful during the restart.

  • Is there a more dreadful sensation than that of your stomach wringing itself out like a washcloth?

  • He looked, that dreadful afternoon, as if he had just come from his barber, tailor and haberdasher.

  • In the novel, the moral situation Frances ends up in is dreadful.

  • Any of the three on its own would have been dreadful enough.

  • There are some hopeful elements in an otherwise dreadful day for human rights.

  • The conflict in Tom's puzzled heart sharpened that evening into dreadful edges that cut him mercilessly whichever way he turned.

  • He could not bear to open his dreadful situation to his Uncle David, nor to kill himself, nor to defy the vengeance of Longcluse.

  • At other times they have a dreadful look of being fibs invented for the purpose of covering a fault.

  • Nevertheless, this world of mankind to-day seems to me to be a very sinister and dreadful world.

  • She had wakened up in the night, and perceived with dreadful clearness that trouble lay in front of her.