Difference between Fear and Dread

What is the difference between Fear and Dread?

Fear as a noun is a strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. while Dread as a noun is a great fear.

Fear

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone. Extreme veneration or awe, as toward a supreme being or deity.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause fear to; to frighten. To feel fear about (something). To venerate; to feel awe towards. Regret

Dread

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To fear greatly.To anticipate with fear.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A great fear.Somebody or something dreaded.A Rastafarian.

Example sentence: From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the heart to gaze on these barrens of Labrador. Indeed, I now dread every change of harbor, so horridly rugged and dangerous is the whole coast and country to the eye, and to the experienced man either of the sea or the land.

We hope you now know whether to use Fear or Dread in your sentence.

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