dread

nouns

fearful expectation or anticipation

"the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread

verbs

be afraid or scared of; be frightened of

"I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"

dread, fear

adjectives

causing fear or dread or terror

"the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"

awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible