dread

1. Fearful expectation or anticipation (synset 107536913)
   "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
   is a type of: fear, fearfulness, fright - an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
   subtypes:

   • trepidation - a feeling of alarm or dread
   • boding, foreboding, premonition, presentiment - a feeling of evil to come
   • suspense - apprehension about what is going to happen
   • gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness - a feeling of melancholy apprehension
   • chill, pall - a sudden numbing dread
   same as: apprehension, apprehensiveness

1. Causing fear or dread or terror (synset 300195400)
   "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
   similar to: alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger
   same as: awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible

1. Be afraid or scared of;
   Be frightened of (synset 201784021)
   "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
   subtypes: panic - be overcome by a sudden fear
   same as: fear

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