Dread and Hideous

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Dread

Dread adjective - Causing fear.

Usage example: every ship on the Spanish Main was terrified of running into the dread pirate

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Hideous and dread are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hideous" instead an adjective "Dread".

Nearby Words: dreadful, dreadfully, dreaded, dreading, dreader

Hideous

Hideous adjective - Causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment.

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Dread and hideous are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dread" instead an adjective "Hideous".

Nearby Words: hide, hideously

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Dread, the psychopath from Tad Williams' Otherland ends up in a coma where all his victims as hideous monsters forever chase him through an eternal Outback.

Source: Convenient Coma

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Hideous and Dread. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dread/hideous

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