Dreading

/ˈdɹɛdɪŋ/

Synonyms for "dreading" (16 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Noun(4 words)
alarminganticipate with fearanxietyanxious

Strong matches (4)

Noun(4 words)

Related words (8)

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affectaffective statecognitive processemotionemotion verbemotional stateemotive contextenvironmental moodfear verbpsychological process

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Collocations

16 entries
anticipatory dreaddread of failuredreading deadlinesdreading examsdreading future eventsdreading the consequencesdreading the examdreading the outcomedreading the resultsdreading the unknowndreading the worstdreading upcoming examsdreading what lies aheadexistential dreadpsychological dreadstrong dread

Inflections

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Sample sentences

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Tomorrow I have my oral exam in German, which I'm not too bothered about. On Thursday, however, I have an exam on abstract algebra — specifically, ring theory — which I'm really dreading.

Source: tatoeba (1574909)

Are you dreading this as much as I am?

Source: tatoeba (2641211)

Are you dreading this?

Source: tatoeba (2646651)

I've been dreading this moment for a long time.

Source: tatoeba (3022017)

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