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Difference Between Dreadful and Horrid

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Dreadful

Causing or involving great suffering, fear, or unhappiness; extremely bad or serious
There's been a dreadful accident
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Horrid

Causing horror; dreadful.
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Dreadful

Used to emphasize the degree to which something is the case, especially something regarded with sadness or disapproval
This was all a dreadful mistake
You're a dreadful flirt
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Horrid

Extremely disagreeable; offensive.
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Dreadful

Extremely bad, unpleasant, or distasteful
Dreadful prose.
This dreadful heat.
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Horrid

(Archaic) Bristling; rough.
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Dreadful

Inspiring dread; terrible
Dreadful noises.
A dreadful tragedy.
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Horrid

(archaic) Bristling, rough, rugged.
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Dreadful

Full of something causing dread, whether
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Horrid

Causing horror or dread.
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Dreadful

Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky.
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Horrid

Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.
Horrid weather
The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.
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Dreadful

(hyperbolic) Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier).
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Horrid

Rough; rugged; bristling.
Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn.
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Dreadful

(obsolete) Awesome, awe-inspiring, causing feelings of reverence.
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Horrid

Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive.
Not in the legionsOf horrid hell.
The horrid things they say.
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Dreadful

(obsolete) Full of dread, whether
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Horrid

Exceedingly bad;
When she was bad she was horrid
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Dreadful

Scared, afraid, frightened.
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Horrid

Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror;
Subjected to outrageous cruelty
A hideous pattern of injustice
Horrific conditions in the mining industry
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Dreadful

Timid, easily frightened.
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Dreadful

Reverential, full of pious awe.
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Dreadful

(informal) Dreadfully.
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Dreadful

A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
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Dreadful

A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
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Dreadful

A shocking or sensational crime.
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Dreadful

Full of dread or terror; fearful.
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Dreadful

Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm.
For all things are less dreadful than they seem.
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Dreadful

Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.
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Dreadful

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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Dreadful

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
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Dreadful

Very unpleasant
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