Difference between Frightening and Dread

FRIGHTENING vs DREAD: NOUN

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

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

Be frightened of
Be afraid or scared of
To fear in a great degree; be in shrinking apprehension or expectation of: used chiefly with reference to the future: as, to dread death.
To cause to fear; alarm; frighten.
To venerate; hold in respectful awe.
To be in great fear, especially of something which may come to pass.
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.

Terrifying, Direful, Terrorization, Terrorisation, Dreaded, Dire, Dread, Awful, Fearful, Fearsome, Dreadful, Terrible, Horrendous, Alarming, Horrific

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

Scary, Terrifying, Direful, Terrorisation, Dreaded, Dire, Dread, Awful, Fearful, Fearsome, Dreadful, Terrible, Horrendous, Alarming, Horrific

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

Which ones were the most frightening or illuminating?
Losing your youngster noises absolutely horrifying and frightening.
Libra, and the frightening future of AI algorithms.
Each prayer is frightening in what it demands.
Being arrested can be a terribly frightening experience.
World War I is certainly frightening but real.
What happens in this judgment is just frightening.
Even this suggestion has frightening portents for some.
Hearing About Frightening Experiences Children can also learn to fear situations from hearing about frightening experiences.
As frightening as this experience can be, the financial risk that it poses can be equally frightening.

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.