Crossword-Solution: DREAD 5 letters, 260 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Dread	v. t.	To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.
Dread	v. i.	To be in dread, or great fear.
Dread	n.	Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
Dread	n.	Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
Dread	n.	An object of terrified apprehension.
Dread	n.	A person highly revered.
Dread	n.	Fury; dreadfulness.
Dread	n.	Doubt; as, out of dread.
Dread	a.	Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
Dread	a.	Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
DREAD	anagram	ADDER, DARED, READD

We have 260 clues for the answer “DREAD”

Clue	Answers
"Jove's ___ clamours . . . ": Othello	1 answer
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men ___ it": Shaw	1 answer
"Truly, the souls of men are full of __": Shak.	1 answer
Abject terror	1 answer
Anicipate with fear	1 answer
Anticipate with alarm	1 answer
Anticipate with dismay	1 answer
Anticipate with fear	1 answer
Anticipate with foreboding	1 answer
Anticipate with trepidation	1 answer
Anticipatory fear	1 answer
Anxious anticipation	1 answer
Audited taxpayer's emotion, maybe	1 answer
Await in terror	1 answer
Await with fear	1 answer
Await with trepidation	1 answer
Awesome fear.	1 answer
Be fearful of	1 answer
Be fearful.	1 answer
Be in fear of	1 answer
Be very afraid	1 answer
Can't bear the thought of	1 answer
Can't contemplate	1 answer
Cringe at	1 answer
Damoclean feeling	1 answer
Deep fear	1 answer
Deep trepidation	1 answer
Definitely not look forward to	1 answer
Descriptor of the pirate in The Princess Bride	1 answer
Don't look forward to	1 answer
Emotion before starting an unpleasant task	1 answer
Emotion causing gooseflesh.	1 answer
Emotion of a slave named Scott?	1 answer
Evoked in Nancy by Bill Sykes.	1 answer
Extreme apprehension	1 answer
Extreme trepidaiton	1 answer
Extreme uneasiness	1 answer
FEAR greatly	1 answer
Face with reluctance.	1 answer
Fear big-time	1 answer
Fear facing	1 answer
Fear intensely	1 answer
Fear, and then some	1 answer
Fearful anticipation	1 answer
Fearful state	1 answer
Feel anxiety	1 answer
Feeling of great apprehension	1 answer
Feeling between taking a final exam and getting the grade, often	1 answer
Feeling every time there's an executive order, these days	1 answer
Feeling when called to the principal's office	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERTAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with DREAD (5)

They heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Besides the pain of separation, the dread and apprehension of a failure exceeded what I had experienced at my first attempt.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

Good-night to ye, shepherd.” The bailiff, who showed this nervous dread of loving his neighbours as himself, went up the hill, and Oak walked on to the village, still astonished at the rencontre with Bathsheba, glad of his nearness to her, and perplexed at the rapidity with which the unpractised girl of Norcombe had developed into the supervising and cool woman here.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Stern-visaged queens, since coming to this land First in your sanctuary I bent the knee, Frown not on me or Phoebus, who, when erst He told me all my miseries to come, Spake of this respite after many years, Some haven in a far-off land, a rest Vouchsafed at last by dread divinities.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

She grew to have a dread of children; for they had imbibed from their parents a vague idea of something horrible in this dreary woman gliding silently through the town, with never any companion but one only child.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with DREAD (3)

A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. M…

Emil M. Cioran

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz

It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion and unchecked desire.

Epictetus

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 234 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).