dreadsome

comparative more dreadsome · superlative most dreadsome · alternative dialectal drodsome

1. Marked by dread; dreadful; alarming.

   But the dreadsome must evidently be of a nature we cannot do anything about.

   2001, Magda King, A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time

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   In advance of it two dreadsome young men [Archangels Michael and Gabriel] glided through the air with unsheathed swords threatening the Muslim regiments. At that moment we recognized them.

   2012, Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1500-1800