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dreadfulness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
dread-ful-ness
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The characteristic of being dreadful.

Uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English dredfulnesse, dredefulnesse, equivalent to dreadful + -ness.

Origin

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Usage

Inflected Forms

dreadfulnesses (plural)

Synonyms

awfulness horridness terribleness

Questions

What does dreadfulness mean?
The characteristic of being dreadful.
Where does dreadfulness come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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