单词 | dreadfulness |
释义 | dreadfulness (once / 72959 pages) n WORD FAMILY dreadfulness: dreadfulnesses+/dread: dreaded, dreadful, dreading, dreadingly, dreadly, dreads/dreadful: dreadfulest, dreadfully, dreadfulness USAGE EXAMPLESOther centerpieces arrived to the Cubs courtesy of the high draft picks that the team earned through its years of calculated dreadfulness. The New Yorker(Sep 15, 2016) “And now I hear in your voice that you have it too. I feel wings over this house. I feel a dreadfulness coming.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden(1952) Indeed, Sterling’s run as a team steward was one of the most remarkable in history due solely to its dreadfulness. Washington Post(Jul 07, 2016) n a quality of extreme unpleasantness Syn|Hypo|Hyper awfulness, horridness, terribleness frightfulness the quality of being frightful ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness, luridnessthe quality of being ghastly unpleasantness the quality of giving displeasure |
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