Word Meanings - DREADLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dreadful. "Dreadly spectacle." Spenser. -- adv.

Related words: (words related to DREADLY)

• SPECTACLE
  An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Something exhibited to view; usually,
• DREADFUL
  1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." Chaucer. 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth. 3.
• DREADFULNESS
  The quality of being dreadful.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DREADLY
  Dreadful. "Dreadly spectacle." Spenser. -- adv.
• SPECTACLED
  Having the eyes surrounded by color markings, or patches of naked skin, resembling spectacles. Spectacled bear , a South American bear which inhabits the high mountains of Chili and Peru. It has a light-colored ring around each eye. -- Spectacled
• DREADFULLY
  In a dreadful manner; terribly. Dryden.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.