fearful expectation or anticipation; the student looked around the examination room with apprehension
[ Syn: apprehension , apprehensiveness ]
dread (n.)
causing fear or dread or terror; 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
[ Syn: awful , dire , direful , dreaded , dreadful , fearful , fearsome , frightening , horrendous , horrific , terrible ]
dread (adj.)
be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; I fear the winters in Moscow; We should not fear the Communists!
[ Syn: fear ]