The meal yesterday was dreadful.
There was a dreadful smell coming from the drain.
Stacie the cat made a dreadful screech after her meal.
His superciliousness was apparent in the dreadful way he treated the waiter.
The dreadful secret of the murder is a chronic mystery.
For a good translation, use it in a sentence. Too many possibles.
No, the word 'dreadful' is an adjective, a word that describes a noun (a dreadful storm, dreadful manners).The word 'dreadful' is the adjective form of the abstract noun dread, a word for an emotion.The abstract noun form of the adjective 'dreadful' is dreadfulness, a word for a quality or condition.
I dread going to work today, because I know the work that is waiting for me. He was filled with dread at the thought of another night in the jungle. He had a dread that she was going to kiss him.
Both sentences are grammatically correct but have slightly different meanings. "What dreadful weather" is a statement expressing bad weather conditions. "What a dreadful weather" is a sentence fragment and would need to be completed with a verb or noun to make sense in a sentence.
A rear of open spaces.having agoraphobia is dreadful because you wouldn't even be able to leave your house.
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cruel
dreadful, awful
Anything that brings terror for example: Frankenstein's face looked dreaful or James's speeling was dreadful, he got everything wrong!