dreadとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: drĕd, IPA^(key): /dɹɛd/
• 韻: -ɛd

動詞

dread (三人称単数 現在形 dreads, 現在分詞 dreading, 過去形および過去分詞形 dreaded)

1. (transitive) To fear greatly.
2. To anticipate with fear.

   I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.

   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 22[1]

     Day by day, hole by hole our bearing reins were shortened, and instead of looking forward with pleasure to having my harness put on as I used to do, I began to dread it.

3. (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Deuteronomy 1:29:

     Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

4. (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.

派生語

• dreadable
• dreadly
• dreadworthy

名詞

dread (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 dreads)

1. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.

   my visit to the doctor is filling me with dread

   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons

     the secret dread of divine displeasure

   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:

     the dread of something after death

   • 2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[2], London, page R11:

     In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.

2. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 9:2:

     The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth.

   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, / The attribute to awe and majesty, / Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.

3. Somebody or something dreaded.
4. (obsolete) A person highly revered.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, (please specify the book):

     Una, his dear dread

5. (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 6, canto 9:

     The mightie ones, affrayd of every chaunges dread

6. A Rastafarian.
7. (chiefly in the plural) dreadlock
   • 2006, Earl Stevens, Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels (lyrics), Lil Jon (music), “Tell Me When To Go”, in My Ghetto Report Card:

     Jesus Christ had dreads / So shake 'em / I ain't got none / But I'm planning on growing some.

派生語

• dreaden
• dreadful
• dreadless
• dreadsome

形容詞

dread (comparative dreader, superlative dreadest)

1. Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded.
   • 1879, Arthur Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert & Sullivan:

     With cat-like tread / Upon our prey we steal / In silence dread / Our cautious way we feel

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[3]:

     I even remember thinking that no human being would go down that dread path again.

2. (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.
   • 1633, John Hay, editor, The Acts Made in the First Parliament of our Most High and Dread Soveraigne Charles, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.: Holden by Himselfe, Present in Person, with His Three Estates, at Edinburgh, upon the Twentie Eight Day of Iune, Anno Domini 1633, Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Young, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, OCLC 606535094:

     The acts made in the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraigne Charles [I], by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. […] [book title]

派生語

• dreadly