dread
The military command sent units of its dreaded special forces.
The dreaded moment for her to make her speech had arrived.
She managed to avoid the dreaded flu this winter.
My dreaded cousin is coming to stay!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Describing things that cause fear
awesome
awesomely
awesomeness
bloodcurdling
chilling
fearsomely
frightening
frighteningly
greasily
hair-raising
intimidating
intimidatingly
scarifying
scarifyingly
scarily
spooky
terrifying
terrifyingly
traumatic
traumatically
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