DREADFUL

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Full of dread or terror; fearful. [Obs.] "With dreadful heart." Chaucer.

2.
a.

Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth.

3.
a.

Inspiring awe or reverence; awful. [Obs.] "God's dreadful law." Shak.

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