DREADFUL, adjective 1. Impressing great fear; terrible; formidable; as a dreadful storm, or dreadful night. The great and dreadful day of the Lord. Malachi 4:5. 2. Awful; venerable. How dreadful is this place. Genesis 48:1.
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