DREADFUL


Meaning of DREADFUL in English

adj.

VERBS

▪ be , feel , look , smell , sound , taste

Poor thing! You look absolutely ~! (= very ill)

ADVERB

▪ really

I feel really ~ about letting you down.

▪ absolutely , quite ( BrE ), truly

a truly ~ hat

▪ pretty , rather

▪ just , simply

PREPOSITION

▪ for

It must have been ~ for you!

Dreadful is used with these nouns: ↑ accident , ↑ bore , ↑ condition , ↑ cost , ↑ crime , ↑ mistake , ↑ ordeal , ↑ shock , ↑ state , ↑ thing , ↑ time , ↑ truth , ↑ weather

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