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dreadful

English

  1. 🔊 extremely disagreeable and unpleasant
    “don't go out, the weather is dreadful”
  2. 🔊 exceptionally bad or displeasing
    “atrocious taste”
  3. 🔊 causing fear or dread or terror
    “the awful war”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 pavoroso dreadful, horrifying

Similar words

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