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Meanings of dreadfulness in English

Catalan
terror
Spanish
terror

A quality of extreme unpleasantness.

terror
Synonyms
Examples for "awfulness"
Examples for "awfulness"
1
Benita shuddered; the solemn awfulness of the place and scene oppressed her.
Benita, an African romance
2
Her voice was reverent; the awfulness of the heavens had humbled her.
There was a King in Egypt
3
She shuddered at the awfulness of it and backed the canoe out.
The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods; Or, The Winnebagos Go Ca...
4
The awfulness of the phenomenon is that nobody knows anything about it.
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
5
That was what made the thing stand out in its sheer awfulness.
The Tree of Heaven
1
Already their import had become familiar enough to lose that first terribleness.
The Nether World
2
The vast spectral terribleness is quickly transformed into a scene of indescribable loveliness.
See America First
3
I must be losing my terribleness for them, I thought.
Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery
4
We feel powerless in the face of what feels like an onslaught of terribleness.
Ebony
5
The terribleness of the sight painted the honest anxiety for the woman on his face.
Michael, Brother of Jerry
1
But the unrelenting, clanking horridness of virtually all the backing is wearing.
The Guardian
2
The truth of everything was so simple in its horridness; so dreadfully simple.
Misery
3
You don't know how often I've thought all sorts of horridness about you.
Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood
4
Sentimentality decorates and disguises all kinds of horridness and makes us feel kindly toward evil.
The Nervous Housewife
5
And there rose up a roar from them that did nigh slay my soul with the horridness of the noise.
The Night Land
Usage of dreadfulness in English
1
It is dreadful, of course; but its dreadfulness melts into pure awfulness.
Dreamthorp / A Book of Essays Written in the Country
2
You think that you have quite conquered the dreadfulness of our origin.
Evan Harrington — Volume 7
3
There's a frightful constraint, a chilly, creepy dreadfulness steals about the party.
This Freedom
4
Despite the dreadfulness of the situation, they felt lucky to have each other.
Flawless
5
For the first time he saw them in all their dreadfulness.
The Silent Places
6
Everyone, including the narrator, is consumed by avarice: it is an extravaganza of dreadfulness.
The best early stories of f. scott fitzgerald
7
The dreadfulness and unexpectedness of this catastrophe occupied me wholly.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
8
Perhaps things of this kind will be manageable without dreadfulness.
An Englishman Looks at the World / Being a Series of Unrestraine...
9
There was a corresponding feeling of horror and the dreadfulness of war on both sides.
The Guardian
10
There had been barely a glance between us to betoken the dreadfulness of the moment.
Ruggles of Red Gap
11
Wrath fled from her knitted brows; her eyes dropping to the girl, lost their dreadfulness; softened.
The Metal Monster
12
People remarked on the dreadfulness of the event.
Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales
13
No traits of chivalrous generosity are told of him, nothing that softens the dreadfulness of war.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
14
By the discovering the dreadfulness of such a condition, and how hazardous it is to continue therein.
Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life
15
The increased dreadfulness of war due to modern weapons is, however, only one consequence of their development.
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, ...
16
I see no darkness here, no dreadfulness.
Major Barbara
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