Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
An object of terrified apprehension.
Exciting great fear or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful.
Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.
fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"