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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being dreadful; terribleness; frightfulness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being dreadful.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The characteristic of being dreadful.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a quality of extreme unpleasantness

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