dreadsome

English

Alternative forms
  • drodsome (dialectal)

Etymology

From dread +‎ -some.

Adjective

dreadsome (comparative more dreadsome, superlative most dreadsome)

  1. 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.
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