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DREADFULNESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does dreadfulness mean?

• DREADFULNESS (noun)
The noun DREADFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. a quality of extreme unpleasantness

Familiarity information: DREADFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DREADFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A quality of extreme unpleasantness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

awfulness; dreadfulness; horridness; terribleness

Hypernyms ("dreadfulness" is a kind of...):

unpleasantness (the quality of giving displeasure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dreadfulness"):

frightfulness (the quality of being frightful)

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