different between presentiment vs dread

English

Etymology

From French pressentiment, from Middle French, equivalent to pre- +? sentiment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pr??zen.t?.m?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pr??zen.t?.m?nt/

Noun

presentiment (plural presentiments)

1. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 13:

     Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts, as they do of their deformed children.

   • 1973, Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight:

     Everything on the surface appeared to be just as it ought to be. And yet Constantin Demiris still felt that vague sense of unease, a presentiment of trouble.

Synonyms

• boding
• foreboding
• forefeeling
• premonition

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French pressentiment

Noun

presentiment n (plural presentimente)

1. presentiment

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English dreden, from Old English dr?dan (“to fear, dread”), aphetic form of ondr?dan (“to fear, dread”), from and- +? r?dan (whence read); corresponding to an aphesis of earlier adread.

Akin to Old Saxon antdr?dan, andr?dan (“to fear, dread”), Old High German intr?tan (“to fear”), Middle High German entr?ten (“to fear, dread, frighten”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: dr?d, IPA^(key): /d??d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Verb

dread (third-person singular simple present dreads, present participle dreading, simple past and past participle dreaded)

1. (transitive) To fear greatly.
2. To anticipate with fear.
   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty Chapter 22[1]

     Day by day, hole by hole our bearing reins were shortened, and instead of looking forward with pleasure to having my harness put on as I used to do, I began to dread it.

3. (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.

   • Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

4. (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.

Derived terms

• dreadable
• dreadly
• dreadworthy

Translations

Noun

dread (countable and uncountable, plural dreads)

1. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to particular Persons

     the secret dread of divine displeasure
2. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.

   • The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth.
3. Somebody or something dreaded.
4. (obsolete) A person highly revered.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene

     Una, his dear dread

5. (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
6. A Rastafarian.
7. (chiefly in the plural) dreadlock

Derived terms

• dreaden
• dreadful
• dreadless
• dreadsome

Translations

Adjective

dread (comparative dreader, superlative dreadest)

1. Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded.
2. (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

Derived terms

• dreadly

Translations

See also

• dreadlocks
• dreadnought

Anagrams

• adder, dared, radde, re-add, readd

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• dreads

Noun

dread m (plural dreads)

1. Clipping of dreadlock.