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Definition of Dreadful
Dreadful

Full of dread or terror; fearful.

Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm.

Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.

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Dreadful Quotations

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
Sophocles

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle

Dreadful Translations

dreadful in Dutch is ijselijk, schrikaanjagend
dreadful in French is terrible
dreadful in Italian is atroce
dreadful in Latin is horrendus
dreadful in Norwegian is fryktelig
dreadful in Spanish is espantoso, terrible


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