Synonyms: horrible; terrifying.
causing fear or dread or hard to overcome...
avoidance aversion hate dread disgust apprehnsion
one syllable
The word DREAD has one syllable
ex:that task was a dread
The root word that means "dread of" is "phobos" or "phobia." For example, "arachnophobia" means the fear or dread of spiders.
Dread.
As the deadline approached, he felt a sense of dread creeping over him.
anticipate
Dared
As a verb --- They always dread doing tax forms. As a noun --- She was filled with dread when her aging mother didn't answer the phone.
Adder