1. (a.) Full of dread or terror; fearful.

2. (a.) Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm.

3. (a.) Inspiring awe or reverence; awful.

Bildungsroman Gothic novel abominable alarming appalling arrant astounding atrocious august awe-inspiring awesome awful awfully bad baneful base beastly beneath contempt big blameworthy brutal comic novel contemptible damned deadly demonic deplorable despicable detective novel detestable devilish diabolical dime novel dire direful disgusting dread dreaded dreadfully egregious enormous epistolary novel erotic novel estimable evil exceedingly feared fearful fearsome fell fetid fiendish filthy flagitious flagrant forbidding formidable foul frightening frightful fulsome ghastly ghoulish grievous grim grisly gross gruesome hateful heinous hideous historical novel honorable horrendous horrible horrid horrific horrifying howling infamous iniquitous lamentable loathsome lousy macabre malefic maleficent malevolent monstrous morbid nasty nefarious noisome notorious nouvelle novel novel of character novel of ideas novel of incident novel of manners novel of sensibility novelette novella obnoxious odious offensive outrageous penny dreadful picaresque novel pitiable pitiful pornographic novel problem novel proletarian novel propaganda novel psychological novel rank rattling redoubtable regional novel regrettable remarkably repelling reprehensible repugnant repulsive reverend revolting river novel roman roman a clef roman-fleuve rotten rousing sad satirical novel scandalous scary schlock schrecklich science-fiction novel scurvy sentimental novel shabby shameful shilling shilling shocker shocking shoddy short story short-short sociological novel sordid squalid storiette stream-of-consciousness novel strikingly terrible terrific thesis novel thumping time-honored too bad tragic tremendous unclean unspeakable venerable vignette vile villainous whacking wicked woeful worshipful worst worthless wretched