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Words related in meaning to the word dread (depending on the usage context)

Starting with A

• abject fear
• affright
• agitation
• alarm
• all-overs
• angst
• anguish
• anticipate
• anticipation
• anxiety
• anxiety hysteria
• anxiety neurosis
• anxious bench
• anxious concern
• anxious seat
• anxiousness
• appalling
• apprehend
• apprehension
• apprehensiveness
• astounding
• aversion
• awe
• awe-inspiring
• awesome
• awful

Starting with B

• be afraid
• blue funk
• boredom

Starting with C

• cankerworm of care
• care
• cheerlessness
• cliff-hanging
• cold feet
• concern
• concernment
• consternation
• contemplate
• cowardice

Starting with D

• dire
• direful
• discomfort
• discomposure
• discontent
• dislike
• dismay
• displeasure
• disquiet
• disquietude
• dissatisfaction
• distress
• disturbance
• dreaded
• dreadful
• dullness

Starting with E

• emptiness
• ennui
• envisage
• existential woe
• expect
• expectant waiting
• eye askance

Starting with F

• face
• fear
• feared
• fearfulness
• fell
• flatness
• flinch
• foreboding
• forebodingness
• foresee
• formidable
• fright
• funk

Starting with G

• ghastly
• ghoulish
• grim
• grimness
• grisly
• gruesome

Starting with H

• have in mind
• have qualms
• hideous
• hope
• horrendous
• horrible
• horrid
• horrific
• horrification
• horrifying
• horror

Starting with I

• inquietude

Starting with J

• joylessness

Starting with L

• lack of pleasure

Starting with M

• macabre
• malaise
• misgive
• misgiving
• morbid

Starting with N

• nausea
• nervous strain
• nervous tension
• nervousness
• nongratification
• nonsatisfaction

Starting with O

• overanxiety

Starting with P

• painfulness
• panic
• panic fear
• perturbation
• pessimism
• phobia
• pins and needles
• presume
• pucker

Starting with Q

• qualm
• queasiness

Starting with R

• redoubtable

Starting with S

• savorlessness
• scare
• schrecklich
• shocking
• shrink from
• sit upon thorns
• solicitude
• spleen
• staleness
• stampede
• stand aghast
• stew
• strain
• suspense

Starting with T

• take for granted
• tastelessness
• tediousness
• tedium
• tension
• terrible
• terrific
• terrifying
• terror
• the heebie-jeebies
• think
• tremendous
• trepidation
• trepidity
• trouble

Starting with U

• uncertainty
• uncomfortableness
• unease
• uneasiness
• unhappiness
• unholy dread
• unpleasure
• unquietness
• unsatisfaction
• upset

Starting with V

• vexation
• vexation of spirit

Starting with W

• waiting
• worry

Starting with Z

• zeal

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