Dreadful vs Horror - What's the difference?
dreadful | horror |
Causing dread; very bad.
* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Chapter 23
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, title= * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 10, author=Marc Higginson, work=BBC Sport
, title= An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.
An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
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, chapter=1 A genre of fiction, meant to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
* {{quote-news
, year = 1898
, date = July 3
, newspaper = Philadelphia Inquirer
, page = 22
, passage = The Home Magazine for July (Binghamton and New York) contains ‘The Patriots' War Chant,’ a poem by Douglas Malloch; ‘The Story of the War,’ by Theodore Waters; ‘A Horseman in the Sky,’ by Ambrose Bierce, with a portrait of Mr. Bierce, whose tales of horror are horrible of themselves, not as war is horrible; ‘A Yankee Hero,’ by W. L. Calver; ‘The Warfare of the Future,’ by Louis Seemuller; ‘Florence Nightingale,’ by Susan E. Dickenson, with two rare portraits, etc.
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* {{quote-news
, year = 1917
, date = February 11
, newspaper = New York Times
, section = Book reviews
, page = 52
, passage = Those who enjoy horror , stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’
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* 1947 , re-release poster, tagline:
(informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; this sense can also be spoken or written as the horrors .
As nouns the difference between dreadful and horror
is that dreadful is a shocking or sensational crime while horror is .As an adjective dreadful
is causing dread; very bad.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.}}
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "dreadful" is often applied: day, night, state, news, time, secret, storm, mistake, accident, story, dream, havoc, truth, loss, act, life, thought, creature, curse, suffering.Derived terms
* penny dreadfulReferences
* (EtymOnLine)horror
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* horrourNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […]”}}
- A Nightmare of Horror !