- a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked.
- a dreadful storm.
- a fearful howling.
- a painful performance.
- a terrible curse.
- abominable workmanship.
- an awful risk.
- an awful voice.
- an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room.
- atrocious taste.
- dire news.
- don't go out, the weather is dreadful.
- dreadful manners.
- horrendous explosions shook the city.
- polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was.
- terrible handwriting.
- the awful war.
- the dread presence of the headmaster.