"dreadful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

dreadful adjetivo

dreadful + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 113
dreadful thing • dreadful place • dreadful day • dreadful mistake • dreadful moment • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 28
(4) moment, stench, instant
Kolokacji: 3
(7) news, secret, word, warning
Kolokacji: 4
(8) sight, mess
Kolokacji: 2
(10) fear, apprehension, terror
Kolokacji: 3
1. dreadful certainty = okropna pewność dreadful certainty
2. dreadful fascination = okropna fascynacja dreadful fascination
3. dreadful truth = okropna prawda dreadful truth
4. dreadful stuff = okropne coś dreadful stuff
5. dreadful reality = okropna rzeczywistość dreadful reality
  • He stared at her as though wishing he could make some dreadful reality disappear.
  • "Suspicion, if not proven or not true, was worse than the dreadful reality," Sickles cautioned while investigating his wife's infidelity with the District Attorney.
  • It was filled now with an ache that he knew would only worsen as the dreadful reality gradually set in.
  • What remains invisible to most of the world is the dreadful day-to-day reality behind those searing televised images - the daily lives of the Iraqi noncombatants.
  • The dreadful reality struck Tom so hard that he reeledon his perch.
  • This dreadful reality did not sink in until I was almost out of high school.
  • She desperately wished that she were asleep and by pinching herself could wake, up to a simpler, less dreadful reality.
  • They were both aware of these realities as keenly as of the dreadful reality that waited on the fourth floor of the hospital.
  • I hope that it will help the open minded understand the dreadful realities that many disabled and very ill people are currently facing.
  • The dreadful, unexpected reality of America's desertion of Chinese human rights is known to prisoners in the torture cells; count on it.
(14) start, shock, blow, slaughter
Kolokacji: 4
(15) crime, sin
Kolokacji: 2
(16) dream, nightmare
Kolokacji: 2
(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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