剑桥高阶英汉双解词典 - dreadful collapse

dreadful
/'dred.fəl/
adjective
A
* very bad, of very low quality, or shocking and very sad
可怕的；糟糕的；惊人的

1. The food was bad and the service was dreadful.
食物很差劲，服务也很糟糕。

2. I was beginning to think I'd made a dreadful mistake.
我开始觉得自己犯了个大错误。

3. The news report was so dreadful that I just had to switch it off.
那个新闻报道太可怕了，我只好关上电视机不看了。

柯林斯COBUILD高阶英汉双解学习词典 - dreadful collapse

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1.ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词糟糕透顶的;令人不快的;劣质的 If you say that something is dreadful, you mean that it is very bad or unpleasant, or very poor in quality.

  • They told us the dreadful news...

    他们告诉了我们那糟糕透顶的消息。

  • My financial situation is dreadful.

    我的经济状况一团糟。

dreadfully

  • You behaved dreadfully...

    你表现得糟透了。

  • They treated him dreadfully.

    他们对他很差。

2.ADJ 形容词极严重的 Dreadful is used to emphasize the degree or extent of something bad.

【搭配模式】：ADJ n

【语用信息】：emphasis

  • We've made a dreadful mistake...

    我们犯了个极大的错误。

  • I had a dreadful headache.

    我头痛欲裂。

dreadfully

  • He looks dreadfully ill...

    他看上去病得不轻。

  • His mother must be dreadfully worried...

    他母亲一定担心死了。

  • I miss him dreadfully.

    我非常想念他。

3.ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词(看上去或感觉到)病得不轻的,极度疲惫的,非常沮丧的 If someone looks or feels dreadful, they look or feel very ill, tired, or upset.

【搭配模式】：feel/look ADJ

  • Are you all right? You look dreadful...

    你还好吧？你看上去十分疲惫。

  • I feel absolutely dreadful about what has happened.

    我对已发生的一切感到极其失望。

牛津高阶英汉双解 第7版 - dreadful collapse

dreadful
dread·ful / 5dredfl / adjective (especially BrE)
1. very bad or unpleasant
   糟糕透顶的；讨厌的；令人不快的:
   What dreadful weather!
   多么讨厌的天气！
   What a dreadful thing to say!
   话说得太难听了！
   It's dreadful the way they treat their staff.
   他们对待雇员的方式糟糕透了。
   How dreadful!
   多讨厌啊！
   Jane looked dreadful (= looked ill or tired).
   简看上去脸色很不好。
⇨ note at terrible
2. [only before noun] used to emphasize how bad sth is
   (强调糟糕的程度)极其的,极坏的
   SYN  terrible :
   She's making a dreadful mess of things.
   她把事情搞得一塌糊涂。
   I'm afraid there's been a dreadful mistake.
   恐怕是出了大错。
3. [usually before noun] causing fear or suffering
   可怕的；令人畏惧的；使人痛苦的
   SYN  terrible :
   a dreadful accident
   可怕的事故
   They suffered dreadful injuries.
   他们严重受伤。

牛津搭配语词典 第2版 - dreadful collapse

dreadful adj.

• VERBS be, feel, look, smell, sound, taste Poor thing! You look absolutely ~! (= very ill)

• ADVERB really I feel really ~ about letting you down. | absolutely, quite (BrE), truly a truly ~ hat | pretty, rather | just, simply

• PREPOSITION for It must have been ~ for you!

Dreadful is used with these nouns: accident, bore, condition, cost, crime, mistake, ordeal, shock, state, thing, time, truth, weather

牛津英语同义词学习词典 - dreadful collapse

dreadful adj.
⇨ terrible 1 (dreadful weather) ⇨ terrible 3 (a dreadful accident)

新牛津英语同义词词典 - dreadful collapse

dreadful

adjective
1 a dreadful accident
TERRIBLE , frightful, horrible, grim, awful, dire; frightening, terrifying, horrifying, alarming; distressing, shocking, appalling, harrowing; ghastly, fearful, hideous, horrendous, monstrous, unspeakable, gruesome, tragic, calamitous, grievous, grisly.
-opposite(s): MILD.

2 that dreadful woman | a dreadful brandy
UNPLEASANT , disagreeable, nasty; frightful, shocking, awful, abysmal, atrocious, disgraceful, deplorable, wretched, very bad, lamentable, repugnant, odious; poor, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory, distasteful; informal hopeless, pathetic, useless, woeful, crummy, rotten, sorry, third-rate, lousy, ropy, God-awful, poxy, not up to snuff, the pits, from hell; Brit. informal duff, chronic, rubbish.
-opposite(s): PLEASANT, AGREEABLE.

3 you're a dreadful flirt
OUTRAGEOUS , shocking; inordinate, immoderate, unrestrained; great, tremendous.
-opposite(s): MILD.

词源记忆 - dreadful collapse

dreadful
  early 13c., "full of dread," from dread + -ful. Meaning "causing dread" is from mid-13c.; weakened sense of "very bad" is from mid-18c. Related: Dreadfully.