Dread may refer to
- Fear, associated with dread, an emotion
- Angst, a profound and deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and despair in the free human being in Existentialist thought
- A short story in horror author Clive Barker's Books of Blood collection, or the comic-book or stage adaptation of same
- Dread (film), a 2009 horror film based on the Clive Barker story
- Dreadlocks, a hairstyle
- Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium, a different independently published modern-horror role-playing game
- Dread RPG, a game of horror and hope
- DREAD: Risk assessment model, a model for assessing computer security risks; acronym for Damage potential, Reproducibility, Exploitability, Affected users, and Discoverability
- Dredd, a 2012 film based on the comic book character Judge Dredd
Famous quotes containing the word dread:
“My apprehensions come in crowds;
I dread the rustling of the grass;
The very shadows of the clouds
Have power to shake me as they pass:”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“Where a multitude of men breathed joy and woe
Long ago;
Lust of glory pricked their hearts up, dread of shame
Struck them tame;”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)