dread

Meanings

• fearful expectation or anticipation
• be afraid or scared of; be frightened of
• causing fear or dread or terror
  • "the dread presence of the headmaster"
  • "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"
  • "a dreadful storm"

Synonyms

apprehension, apprehensiveness, awful, dire, direful, dreaded, dreadful, fear, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible