dread
English
/dɹɛd/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To fear greatly.
- To anticipate with fear.
- (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.
- (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English dreden inherited from Old English drǣdan (dread, fear) inherited from *andarādan (fear).
Origin
*andarādan
Gloss
fear
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
恐, 虞, 怖, 畏, 慄
Emoji
😨 😱
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dreadable English
- dreaden English
- dreader English
- dreadeth English
- dreadful English
- dreadfully English
- dreadfulness English
- dreadless English
- dreadlessly English
- dreadlessness English
- dreadlocks English
- dreadly English
- dreadness English
- dreadnought English
- dreadsome English
- dreadtalk English
- dreadworthy English
- fordread English
- indread English
- locks English
- misdread English
- nought English
- pre-dreadnought English
- superdreadnought English
- talk English
- undread English
- dreadnought Italian
- дредноут Russian
- drǣdan Old English
- ondrædan Old English
- dreden Middle English
- dredful Middle English
- dredles Middle English
- dredli Middle English
- fordreden Middle English
- *andarādan gmw-pro
- andradan Old Saxon
- dred Volapük
- dreadlocks Jamaican Creole