Adjective has 1 sense

• dreaded(s = adj.all) awful, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible - causing fear or dread or terror; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "a terrible curse"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "the awful war"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"