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"dreadful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

dreadful adjetivo

dreadful + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 113
dreadful thing • dreadful place • dreadful day • dreadful mistake • dreadful moment • ...
colocaciones frecuentes
Kolokacji: 3
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(1) thing, place, man, scene, creature, ...
Kolokacji: 12
(2) day, night, season, year, afternoon
Kolokacji: 5
(3) mistake, thought, error, memory, idea
Kolokacji: 5
(4) moment, stench, instant
Kolokacji: 3
(5) condition, silence, feeling, circumstance, way, ...
Kolokacji: 9
(6) sound, noise, cry, scream, toll
Kolokacji: 5
(7) news, secret, word, warning
Kolokacji: 4
(8) sight, mess
Kolokacji: 2
(9) time, experience, fate, accident, loss, ...
Kolokacji: 10
(10) fear, apprehension, terror
Kolokacji: 3
(11) event, performance, deed, consequence, act, ...
Kolokacji: 7
1. dreadful event = straszne wydarzenie dreadful event
2. dreadful performance = straszne przedstawienie dreadful performance
3. dreadful deed = straszny czyn dreadful deed
4. dreadful consequence = straszna konsekwencja dreadful consequence
5. dreadful act = straszny czyn dreadful act
6. dreadful waste = okropne odpady dreadful waste
  • What a truly dreadful waste of the license fee - hardly justifiable in these economic times.
  • It was a dreadful waste of a Saturday afternoon; she would have preferred to stay home with the cats, reading and making scones for tea.
  • Such a dreadful waste, but it was her own doing.
  • It would be a dreadful waste, but I would certainly shoot her if you make any dubious moves.
  • It was a dreadful waste, but there was no help for it; reading tea leaves had never been her forte.
  • But it is a dreadful waste of time.
  • A dreadful waste of time and wheedling by all concerned in Cannes.
  • It really would be the most dreadful waste of effort to lose control now.
  • "No-there's no need, and it would be a dreadful waste of time--I'm quite happy sitting in the car."
  • It was a dreadful waste of smells, Timmy thought.
7. dreadful habit = straszny zwyczaj dreadful habit
(12) disease, pain, nuisance, monster, temper, ...
Kolokacji: 6
(13) certainty, fascination, truth, stuff, reality
Kolokacji: 5
(14) start, shock, blow, slaughter
Kolokacji: 4
(15) crime, sin
Kolokacji: 2
(16) dream, nightmare
Kolokacji: 2
(17) punishment, suspicion, war, enemy
Kolokacji: 4
(18) weather, storm
Kolokacji: 2
(19) headache, burden
Kolokacji: 2
(20) possibility, anticipation
Kolokacji: 2
(21) sense, realization
Kolokacji: 2
(22) danger, menace, peril
Kolokacji: 3
(23) story, tale, lie, rumor
Kolokacji: 4
(24) curse, scourge
Kolokacji: 2
(25) calamity, tragedy
Kolokacji: 2
(26) irony, pun
Kolokacji: 2
(27) cold, heat
Kolokacji: 2
(28) movie, novel
Kolokacji: 2
adverbio + dreadful
Kolokacji: 5
most dreadful • truly dreadful • pretty dreadful • perfectly dreadful • absolutely dreadful
dreadful + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
dreadful in • dreadful for • dreadful to

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