| dread | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, apprehensiveness |
| (verb) be afraid or scared of; be frightened of | Synonyms: fear |
| dreaded | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| dreadful | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, atrocious, awful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
| (adjective) extremely disagreeable and unpleasant | - |
| dreadfully | (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: awfully, horribly |
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| (adverb) in a dreadful manner | Synonyms: dismally |
| dreadfulness | (noun) a quality of extreme unpleasantness | Synonyms: awfulness, horridness, terribleness |
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| dreadlock | (noun) one of many long thin braids of hair radiating from the scalp; popularized by Rastafarians | - |
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| dreadnaught | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnought |
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| dreadnought | (noun) battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | Synonyms: dreadnaught |
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| dream | (noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | Synonyms: dreaming |
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| (noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | Synonyms: dreaming |
| (noun) a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe) | Synonyms: pipe dream |
| (noun) a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality | - |
| (noun) a cherished desire | Synonyms: ambition, aspiration |
| (noun) someone or something wonderful | - |
| (verb) have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy | Synonyms: daydream, stargaze, woolgather |
| (verb) experience while sleeping | - |
| dreamed | (adjective) conceived of or imagined or hoped for | - |
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| dreamer | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: escapist, wishful thinker |
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| (noun) someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations | Synonyms: idealist |
| (noun) someone who is dreaming | - |
| dreamfully | (adverb) in a dreamy manner | Synonyms: dreamily, moonily |
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| dreamily | (adverb) in a dreamy manner | Synonyms: dreamfully, moonily |
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| dreaminess | (noun) a relaxed comfortable feeling | Synonyms: languor |
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| dreaming | (noun) a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep | Synonyms: dream |
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| (noun) imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake | Synonyms: dream |
| dreamland | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamworld, never-never land |
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| dreamless | (adjective) untroubled by dreams | - |
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| dreamlike | (adjective) resembling a dream | Synonyms: surreal |
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| dreamworld | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination | Synonyms: dreamland, never-never land |
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| dreamy | (adjective) dreamy in mood or nature | Synonyms: moony, woolgathering |
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| (adjective) lacking spirit or liveliness | Synonyms: lackadaisical, languid, languorous |
| drear | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| drearily | (adverb) in a cheerless manner | Synonyms: dismally |
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| dreariness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, insipidity, insipidness |
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| dreary | (adjective) causing dejection | Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, gloomy, grim, sorry |
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| (adjective) lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise | Synonyms: drab |