- 2. Venerable, awful.
Dread, v. a. Fear greatly.
Dreadful, a.
- 1. Terrible, horrible, horrid, direful, dire, fearful, frightful, terrific, awful, tremendous, formidable.
- 2. Venerable, awful.
Dream, n.
- 1. Sleeping vision.
- 2. Revery, fancy, fantasy, conceit, illusion, delusion, vagary, idle fancy, day-dream, castle in the air, château
en Espagne.
Dream, v. n.
- 1. Have visions in sleep.
- 2. Think, imagine, fancy, have a notion.
- 3. Give a loose rein to the fancy, give the reins to the imagination, indulge in revery, build castles in the
air.
Dream away. Spend idly, pass in revery.
Dreamer, n. Visionary, enthusiast, castle-builder.
Dreamland, n. Fairyland, land of dreams, realms of fairy, realm of fancy and imagination, region of revery, cloudland.
Drear, a. Gloomy. See dreary, 1.
Dreary, a.
- 1. Gloomy, dismal, dark, drear, lonely, solitary, lonesome, cheerless, comfortless, chilling, depressing.
- 2. Monotonous, dull, tiresome, uninteresting.
Dredge-box, n. Dredging-box, flour-dredge.