dreadful
adj.adj. extremely bad, low quality, or unpleasant. You use this to describe something that makes you feel very unhappy or disappointed.
adj. extremely disagreeable, shocking, or of very poor quality. Often used as an intensifier to express strong disapproval or physical discomfort.
The weather today is absolutely dreadful.
We had a dreadful experience at the hotel because the room was dirty and loud.
The critic described the performance as a dreadful waste of talent, citing the poor script and uninspired direction as the primary failures.
From Middle English dredful, dredfull, dredeful (also dreful), equivalent to dread + -ful.
Commonly modified by intensifiers like 'absolutely' or 'simply'; often precedes nouns like 'weather', 'mistake', or 'news'.