| slovo | definícia |
dreadful
(mass) | dreadful
- hrozný, strašný |
dreadful
(encz) | dreadful,hrozný adj: Ritchie |
dreadful
(encz) | dreadful,strašný adj: jose |
Dreadful
(gcide) | Dreadful \Dread"ful\, a.
1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. [Obs.] "With dreadful
heart." --Chaucer.
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2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible;
as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." --Milton.
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For all things are less dreadful than they seem.
--Wordsworth.
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3. Inspiring awe or reverence; awful. [Obs.] "God's dreadful
law." --Shak.
Syn: Fearful; frightful; terrific; terrible; horrible;
horrid; formidable; tremendous; awful; venerable. See
Frightful.
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dreadful
(wn) | dreadful
adj 1: 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" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a),
dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome,
frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]
2: exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste";
"abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful
manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting";
"an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" [syn:
atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful,
terrible, unspeakable]
3: very unpleasant |
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dreadful
(mass) | dreadful
- hrozný, strašný |
dreadfully
(mass) | dreadfully
- hrozne |
dreadful
(encz) | dreadful,hrozný adj: Ritchiedreadful,strašný adj: jose |
dreadfully
(encz) | dreadfully,hrozně adv: Zdeněk Broždreadfully,strašlivě adv: Zdeněk Brož |
dreadfulness
(encz) | dreadfulness,odpornost n: Zdeněk Brož |
penny dreadful
(encz) | penny dreadful, n: |
Dreadfully
(gcide) | Dreadfully \Dread"ful*ly\, adv.
In a dreadful manner; terribly. --Dryden.
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Dreadfulness
(gcide) | Dreadfulness \Dread"ful*ness\, n.
The quality of being dreadful.
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dreadful
(wn) | dreadful
adj 1: 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" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a),
dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome,
frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]
2: exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste";
"abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful
manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting";
"an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" [syn:
atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful,
terrible, unspeakable]
3: very unpleasant |
dreadfully
(wn) | dreadfully
adv 1: of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody
accident on the road this morning" [syn: dreadfully,
awfully, horribly]
2: in a dreadful manner; "as he looks at the mess he has left
behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to
succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally
failed" [syn: dismally, dreadfully] |
dreadfulness
(wn) | dreadfulness
n 1: a quality of extreme unpleasantness [syn: awfulness,
dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness] |
penny dreadful
(wn) | penny dreadful
n 1: a melodramatic paperback novel [syn: dime novel, {penny
dreadful}] |
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