[adjective] - very bad, of very low quality, or shocking and very sadThe food was bad and the service was dreadful.I was beginning to think I'd made a dreadful mistake.That was a truly dreadful film.The news report was so dreadful that I just had to switch it off.It's a dreadful (= very great) nuisance having to go into work this Saturday!
DREADFUL
Meaning of DREADFUL in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012