dreadfuladjective
uk/ˈdred.fəl/us/ˈdred.fəl/mainly UKB2 very bad, of very low quality, or shocking and very sad:
The food was bad and the service was dreadful.
I was beginning to think I'd made a dreadful mistake.
The news report was so dreadful that I just had to switch it off.
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- She was wearing a dreadful pink flouncy skirt.
- His speech was dreadful - he just kept repeating himself.
- He woke up with a dreadful headache.
- To be candid with you, I think you're making a dreadful mistake.
- Turn that dreadful wailing music off and put on something cheerful.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not of good quality
- a miserable, poor, etc. excuse for sth idiom
- apology
- atrocious
- awful
- badly
- be an apology for sth idiom
- clunky
- come/be a poor second, third, etc. idiom
- downmarket
- downscale
- inadequate
- motley
- mouldy
- not set the world on fire idiom
- of sorts idiom
- tacky
- unattractive
- unimpressed
- weak sauce
- worst
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