Definition of dreaded

"dreaded" in the verb sense

1. fear, dread

be afraid or scared of be frightened of

"I fear the winters in Moscow"

"We should not fear the Communists!"

"dreaded" in the adjective sense

1. awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible

causing fear or dread or terror

"the awful war"

"an awful risk"

"dire news"

"a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"

"the dread presence of the headmaster"

"polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"

"a dreadful storm"

"a fearful howling"

"horrendous explosions shook the city"

"a terrible curse"

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Quotations for dreaded

War ought neither to be dreaded nor provoked. [ Pliny the Younger ]

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

Of our enemies, the smallest are often the most to be dreaded. [ La Fontaine ]

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. [ Bovee ]

Both beauty and ugliness are equally to be dreaded; the one as a dangerous gift, the other as a melancholy affliction. [ Eliza Cook ]

Enthusiasm is an evil much less to be dreaded than superstition. Superstition is the disease of nations; enthusiasm that of individuals: the former grows inveterate by time: the latter is cured by it. [ Robert Hall ]

We have often thought it strange that moralists should have written and spoken of the mutability of human life as if it were a thing to be dreaded and mourned over; to our mind, mutability is the soul of poetry, and the source of nearly all the most delightful and sacred pleasures of life. [ Stubbs ]

dreaded in Scrabble®

The word dreaded is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters dreaded:

READDED
(90 = 40 + 50)
DREADED
(90 = 40 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

dreaded, readded

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word dreaded

DREADED
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In dreaded

READDED
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READDED
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dreaded in Words With Friends™

The word dreaded is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters dreaded:

DREADED
(89 = 54 + 35)
READDED
(89 = 54 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

dreaded, readded

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word dreaded

DREADED
(89 = 54 + 35)
DREADED
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DREADED
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In dreaded

DREADED
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READDED
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READDED
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Words within the letters of dreaded

2 letter words in dreaded (3 words)

3 letter words in dreaded (7 words)

4 letter words in dreaded (8 words)

5 letter words in dreaded (6 words)

6 letter words in dreaded (1 word)

7 letter words in dreaded (Anagrams) (2 words)

dreaded + 1 blank (4 words)

Words containing the sequence dreaded

Words that start with dreaded (1 word)

Words with dreaded in them (1 word)

Words that end with dreaded (2 words)

Word Growth involving dreaded

Shorter words in dreaded

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Longer words containing dreaded

undreaded