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Synonyms for dreadful
adj horrible, frighteningAntonyms for dreadful
- OK
- advantageous
- beautiful
- comforting
- delightful
- good
- great
- happy
- honest
- inoffensive
- little
- nice
- pleasant
- pleasing
- reputable
- small
- tiny
- undecayed
- unimportant
- wonderful
- welcomed
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atrocious
adjective. offensive
awesome
adjective. amazing
- alarming
- astonishing
- awe-inspiring
- awful
- beautiful
- breathtaking
- daunting
- dreadful
- exalted
- fearful
- fearsome
- formidable
- frantic
- frightening
- grand
- hairy
- horrible
- horrifying
- imposing
- impressive
- intimidating
- magnificent
- majestic
- mean
- mind-blowing
- moving
- nervous
- overwhelming
- real gone
- shocking
- something else
- striking
- stunning
- stupefying
- terrible
- terrifying
- wonderful
- wondrous
- zero cool
awful
adjective. very bad; terrible
bad
adjective. poor quality
- abominable
- amiss
- atrocious
- awful
- bad news
- beastly
- blah
- bottom out
- bummer
- careless
- cheap
- cheesy
- crappy
- cruddy
- crummy
- defective
- deficient
- diddly
- dissatisfactory
- downer
- dreadful
- erroneous
- fallacious
- faulty
- garbage
- godawful
- grody
- gross
- grungy
- icky
- imperfect
- inadequate
- incorrect
- inferior
- junky
- lousy
- not good
- off
- poor
- raunchy
- rough
- sad
- slipshod
- stinking
- substandard
- synthetic
- the pits
- unacceptable
- unsatisfactory
badder
adjective. poor quality
- abominable
- amiss
- atrocious
- awful
- bad news
- beastly
- blah
- bottom out
- bummer
- careless
- cheap
- cheesy
- crappy
- cruddy
- crummy
- defective
- deficient
- diddly
- dissatisfactory
- downer
- dreadful
- erroneous
- fallacious
- faulty
- garbage
- godawful
- grody
- gross
- grungy
- icky
- imperfect
- inadequate
- incorrect
- inferior
- junky
- lousy
- not good
- off
- poor
- raunchy
- rough
- sad
- slipshod
- stinking
- substandard
- synthetic
- the pits
- unacceptable
- unsatisfactory
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.