Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky. / (hyperbolic) Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier). / (obsolete) Awesome, awe-inspiring, causing feelings of reverence.

(informal) Dreadfully.

A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style. / A journal or broadsheet printing such reports. / A shocking or sensational crime.

plural of dreadful

The characteristic of being dreadful.

plural of dreadfulness

(colloquial) dreadlocks

A Rastafarian person.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dread

(transitive) To fear greatly. / To anticipate with fear. / (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear. / (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.