dreaded
adjective
1. causing fear or dread or terror
- the dread presence of the headmaster
- polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was
- a dreadful storm
Similar word(s): alarming, awful, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
verb
1. simple past tense and past participle of dread