Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror. / Reverential or respectful fear; awe. / Somebody or something dreaded. / (obsolete) A person highly revered.

Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded. / (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

Causing fear, dread, or terror. / Wearing dreadlocks.

simple past tense and past participle of dread

present participle of dread

Quality of being dread.

(originally derogatory, now usually historical) A cheap paperback book, particularly those concerning lurid depictions of crime in the Victorian era.

plural of penny dreadful

plural of rent-a-dread

(slang) A male sex worker in the Caribbean, catering to female sex tourists.