dreadsome
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editdreadsome (comparative more dreadsome, superlative most dreadsome)
- Marked by dread; dreadful; alarming.
- 2001, Magda King, A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time:
- But the dreadsome must evidently be of a nature we cannot do anything about.
- 2012, Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1500-1800:
- In advance of it two dreadsome young men [Archangels Michael and Gabriel] glided through the air with unsheathed swords threatening the Muslim regiments. At that moment we recognized them.