Difference between Dreadful and Dread

DREADFUL vs DREAD: NOUN

A shocking or sensational report of a crime.
That which is fearful or terrible: used only in the phrases penny dreadful, shilling dreadful, to denote a tale of vulgar sensationalism sold at a small price, or a cheap sensational newspaper or periodical.
A shocking or sensational crime.

Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
An object of terrified apprehension.
A person highly revered.
Fury; dreadfulness.
A great fear.
Somebody or something dreaded.
A Rastafarian.
Dreadlock
Great fear or apprehension; tremulous anticipation of or repugnance to the happening of something: as, the dread of evil; the dread of suffering; the dread of the divine displeasure.
A cause or object of apprehension; the person or the thing dreaded.
Doubt.
Awe; reverence.
A person who wears dreadlocks.
A dreadlock.
A source of fear, awe, or reverence.
An instance of fear or fearful anticipation.
Fearful or anxious anticipation: : fear.
Profound fear; terror.
Fearful expectation or anticipation
Awe; fear united with respect; terror.
Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.

To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.

Extremely disagreeable and unpleasant
Synonyms Fearful, Frightful, etc. (see awful); terrific, horrible, horrid, dire, direful, tremendous.
Awful; venerable; awe-inspiring.
Exciting or attended by great dread, fear, or terror; terrible; formidable; direful: as, a dreadful storm; a dreadful invasion.
Full of respect, honor, or veneration.
I. Full of dread or fear.

To venerate; hold in respectful awe.
Dreaded; such as to excite great fear or apprehension; terrible; frightful.
That is to be dreaded or feared; awful; solemn; venerable: as, dread sovereign; a dread tribunal.
To cause to fear; alarm; frighten.
To fear in a great degree; be in shrinking apprehension or expectation of: used chiefly with reference to the future: as, to dread death.
Be afraid or scared of
To be in great fear, especially of something which may come to pass.
Be frightened of

Fearsome, Dreaded, Alarming, Painful, Unspeakable, Dire, Unpleasant, Frightening, Bad, Abominable, Horrific, Awful, Atrocious, Terrible, Horrendous

Trepidation, Direful, Dire, Horrendous, Alarming, Horrific, Fearsome, Awful, Terrible, Dreadful, Apprehensiveness, Frightening, Apprehension, Fearful, Fear

Fearsome, Dreaded, Alarming, Painful, Unspeakable, Dire, Unpleasant, Frightening, Bad, Abominable, Horrific, Awful, Atrocious, Terrible, Horrendous

Anxiety, Foreboding, Trepidation, Direful, Dire, Horrendous, Alarming, Horrific, Fearsome, Awful, Terrible, Dreadful, Frightening, Fearful, Fear

Asda, absolutely dreadful, low alcohol and no taste.
It is both an encouraging and dreadful event.
Shiloh has been a dreadful blow to us.
It may have been that dreadful Queensway Cathedral.
Dreadful system and unfair on so many levels.
He has moved to somewhere that is dreadful.
She told Jury about the whole dreadful experience.
Attitude: It is dreadful to be in danger.
The old way is absolutely dreadful in comparison.
The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.

A sense of dread will pervade the organization.
What are the exclusions for dread disease cover?
Did with less Dread, and more securely Dine.
What he felt instead was boredom and dread.
This is a power we do not dread.
Like you, I was beginning to dread running.
From depths of Darkness, Night, and Orous dread.
Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they dread, nor be in dread.
Dread in what appeared to be a response to something Dread said to teammates.
There they dreaded a dread where no dread was.