Dread vs Antipathy - What's the difference?
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To fear greatly.
To anticipate with fear.
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 22[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/22]
To be in dread, or great fear.
* Bible, Deuteronomy i. 29
Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
* Tillotson
* Shakespeare
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Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
* Bible, Genesis ix 2.
* Shakespeare
Somebody or something dreaded.
(obsolete) A person highly revered.
* Spenser
(obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
A Rastafarian.
(chiefly, in the plural) dreadlock
Terrible; greatly feared.
(archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.
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Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
* Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. --Washington.
Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
* A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason. --I. Taylor.
Dread is a related term of antipathy.
As nouns the difference between dread and antipathy
is that dread is great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror while antipathy is contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.As a verb dread
is to fear greatly.As an adjective dread
is terrible; greatly feared.dread
English
Verb
(en verb)- I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.
- Day by day, hole by hole our bearing reins were shortened, and instead of looking forward with pleasure to having my harness put on as I used to do, I began to dread it.
- Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
Derived terms
* dreadable * dreadworthyNoun
(en noun)- the secret dread of divine displeasure
- the dread of something after death
- The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth.
- His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, / The attribute to awe and majesty, / Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.
- Una, his dear dread
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