"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
(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
1. dreadful story = okropna historia dreadful story
2. dreadful tale = okropna opowieść dreadful tale
3. dreadful lie = okropne kłamstwo dreadful lie
4. dreadful rumor = okropna pogłoska dreadful rumor
  • There are so many dreadful rumors about your engagement.
  • "And one year, just before Christmas, they heard a dreadful rumour."
  • This dreadful rumour filled us with inexpressible anguish and terror, especially when we saw our old masters . . . seizing upon slaves in the streets of New-York, or even dragging them out of their beds.
  • And worst of all, Sacco's town was blowing up around him, dreadful rumors circulating.
  • Hers had not been trivial, and dreadful rumors must surely be going the rounds.
  • It will scotch the whole thing and all these dreadful rumours against poor Doctor Oldfield will die down.33 She shook hands and hurried out of the room.
  • She paused, loath to voice the dreadful rumour.
  • Should disaster overtake him and the dreadful rumours become reality, she Joan, alias Anne Mowbray, would not wish for longer life.
  • Its name was Cirith Ungol, a name of dreadful rumour.
(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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