Dreadful vs Dreadless - What's the difference?
dreadful | dreadless |
Causing dread; very bad.
* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Chapter 23
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, title= Feeling no dread or fear; unafraid.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vi:
*:So doubly is distrest twixt ioy and cares / The dreadlesse courage of this Elfin knight, / Hauing escapt so sad ensamples in his sight.
*, I.40:
*:And to make shew of his dreadlesse magnanimitie, having caused a pan of burning coales to be brought, he saw and suffred his right arme.
(obsolete) Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure.
*Spenser
*:Safe in his dreadless den.
As adjectives the difference between dreadful and dreadless
is that dreadful is causing dread; very bad while dreadless is feeling no dread or fear; unafraid.As a noun dreadful
is a shocking or sensational crime.dreadful
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Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic) * (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- "My greatest wish now," she added, "is to get back to Kansas, for Aunt Em will surely think something dreadful has happened to me, and that will make her put on mourning; and unless the crops are better this year than they were last, I am sure Uncle Henry cannot afford it."
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}
Bolton 1-2 Aston Villa, passage=After a dreadful performance in the opening 45 minutes, they upped their game after the break and might have taken at least a point from the match.}}
