8 Letter Words for Dreading
dreading, readding
7 Letter Words for Dreading
areding, dandier, deading, dearing, degrain, deraign, diander, drained, earding, gradine, grained, grinded, radding, reading, redding
6 Letter Words for Dreading
adding, airned, ardeid, argine, aridge, dading, daeing, dained, dander, dandie, danged, danger, daring, darned, denari, dendra, dering, dinder, dingar, dinged, dinger, dirged, dradge, draine, earing, engird, engrid, gadder, gained, gainer, gander, garden, giddea, girded, girned, graded, gradin, graine, grande, grided, indear, nadder, narded, nidder, raided, rained, randed, randie, ranged, reagin, reding, regain, regian, regina, ridden, ridged, rinded, ringed
5 Letter Words for Dreading
adder, adige, adred, aegir, agend, agrin, aided, aider, aiger, aired, anded, andre, anger, aredd, arend, areng, argin, daine, dared, deair, dearn, deign, denar, denda, derig, diane, didna, digne, dinar, dined, diner, dinge, dirge, drain, drang, dread, dreng, dried, edgar, egrid, endia, ering, gaddi, gader, gadid, gaine, garde, garni, geira, gidar, gnide, grade, grain, grand, grane, grein, gride, grind, indra, inger, irade, irena, nadir, nided, nidge, niger, nigra, radge, ragde, raged, raine, range, ranid, readd, redan, redia, redid, redig, regia, regin, regna, reign, reina, renga, renig, riden, ridge, ringe
4 Letter Words for Dreading
addn, addr, aden, aged, agen, ager, agin, agni, aide, aine, aire, airn, anre, ared, areg, aren, arid, arni, dade, daer, dain, dand, dane, dang, dard, dare, darg, dari, darn, dead, dean, dear, deda, deia, deid, deni, dern, diag, dian, didn, died, dier, dine, ding, dird, dire, drad, drag, dreg, drie, eadi, eard, earn, edda, egad, eira, engr, eria, erin, gade, gadi, gaen, gaid, gain, gair, gane, gard, gare, gari, garn, gean, gear, gedd, gein, geir, gena, gied, gien, gird, gire, girn, gnar, grad, gran, gren, grid, grin, iare, idea, igad, inde, inga, iran, ired, nagi, naid, naig, nard, nare, near, nerd, ngai, nide, nied, rade, rage, ragi, raid, rain, rand, rane, rang, read, rean, redd, regd, rein, rend, rgen, ride, riga, rind, rine, ring
3 Letter Words for Dreading
add, ade, aer, age, agr, aid, ain, air, and, ane, ard, are, arg, arn, dad, dae, dag, dan, dar, dea, ded, deg, dei, den, der, dia, did, die, dig, din, dir, dna, ead, ean, ear, edd, eir, end, eng, era, erd, erg, ern, gad, gan, gar, ged, gen, ger, gid, gie, gin, gra, ida, ide, ign, ind, ing, ira, ire, nad, nae, nag, nar, nea, ned, neg, nei, nid, nie, nig, rad, rag, rai, ran, rea, red, reg, rei, ria, rid, rie, rig, rin, rna, rnd
Definitions for Dreading
[1] to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
[2] to be reluctant to do, meet, or experience: I dread going to big parties.
[3] Archaic . to hold in respectful awe.
[4] to be in great fear.
[5] terror or apprehension as to something in the future; great fear.
[6] a person or thing dreaded.
[7] dreads, Informal . dreadlocks.
[8] Informal . a person who wears dreadlocks.w
[9] Archaic . deep awe or reverence.
[10] greatly feared; frightful; terrible.
[11] held in awe or reverential fear.
[12] to anticipate with apprehension or terror
[13] to fear greatly
[14] archaic to be in awe of
[15] great fear; horror
[16] an object of terror
[17] slang a Rastafarian
[18] archaic deep reverence
[19] literary awesome; awe-inspiring
Words related to Dreading
dreadapprehend, tremble, shudder, quake, fear, cringe, misdoubt
Words nearby Dreading
dreaddraying, drayman, drayton, drch., dre, dread, dreadful, dreadfully, dreadlocks, dreadnought, dream
Origin of Dreading
1125–75; Middle English dreden (v.), Old English drǣdan, aphetic variant of adrǣdan, ondrǣdan; cognate with Old High German intrātan to fear
Other words from Dreading
dread·a·ble , adjective
dread·ness , noun
pre·dread , noun, verb (used with object)
un·dread·ed , adjective
un·dread·ing , adjective
Word origin for Dreading
Old English ondrǣdan; related to Old Saxon antdrādan, Old High German intrātan
Synonyms for Dreading
apprehend, cringe, fear, quake, shudder, tremble, be afraid, have cold feet, misdoubt, shrink from
