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17 Feb 2018
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What is the difference between dreadful and dreaded ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between dreadful and dreaded ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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17 Feb 2018
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- English (UK)
Dreadful: terrible, bad
Dreaded (adjective): something that people fear, scary
Dreaded (verb, past tense): something that someone feared in the past
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- Bengali
Dreadful means terrible, awful, shocking.
For example, "this was all a dreadful mistake".
Dreaded means something that is really fearful.
For example, "it was actually a dreaded news".
Hope it helps. ^_^
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- Arabic
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Dreadful is an adjective meaning ( aweful/ horrible) while dreaded is a verb in the past tense or past participle meaning ( feared):
What happened was dreadful.
He dreaded facing his father.
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- English (UK)
Dreadful: terrible, bad
Dreaded (adjective): something that people fear, scary
Dreaded (verb, past tense): something that someone feared in the past
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- Simplified Chinese (China)
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