Dreadful vs. Horrid
Difference Between Dreadful and Horrid
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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