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something dreadful

something dreadful is the alternative form of something awful.

Meaning of something awful

Adverb

something awful

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic, degree) Intensely or extremely; badly; in the worst way.
    • He wants to get out of there something awful, but he just doesn't have the money.

Questions about something dreadful

What is something dreadful the alternative form of?
Something dreadful is the alternative form of something awful.

Words near something dreadful in the dictionary

  1. somethin'
  2. something
  3. something and nothing
  4. something awful
  5. something bad
  6. something dreadful
  7. something else
  8. something fierce
  9. something for the weekend
  10. something good
  11. something is better than nothing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: something dreadful (page history and authors); something awful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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