| 单词 | dreadful |
| 释义 | dread·ful I. 1. a. b. obsolete 2. a. < a dreadful storm > < that snake provided me with one of the most dreadful experiences of my life — Jack McLaren > b. < out from the portico there gleamed a god, Apollon … all his shape one dreadful beauty — Robert Browning > 3. a. < no more dreadful horror through the whole story than the bloody sack of Limoges — H.O.Taylor > < the dreadful theory that if a teacher has studied education, he does not have to have a real mastery of the subject he is teaching — Oliver La Farge > b. < when she's alone and humiliated and broken it would be dreadful if she had nowhere to go — W.S.Maugham > c. (1) < a dreadful road > < dreadful acoustics > (2) < to prevent her marrying dreadful people — Edith Wharton > (3) < dreadful furniture > < a dreadful sight in her country clothes — R.H.Sampson > d. < the dreadful conclusion that the date 1869 … marks definitely the hour at which Latin … became a dead language — A.T.Quiller-Couch > 4. < a lady in a long skirt … was making dreadful havoc with the standing grass — F.M.Ford > < boats and tackle were in dreadful disrepair — Arthur Rucker > Synonyms: see fearful II. chiefly North < dreadful sick > < a dreadful good man > III. < a shilling dreadful > — compare dime novel, shocker |
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