dreadful vs fab

dreadful

adj
  • Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky. 

  • Unpleasant, awful, very bad (also used as an intensifier). 

adv
  • Dreadfully. 

noun
  • A shocking or sensational crime. 

  • A journal or broadsheet printing such reports. 

  • A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style. 

fab

adj
  • fabulous (great or spectacular). 

verb
  • To fabricate, especially in the context of fabbers 

noun
  • A manufacturing plant which fabricates items, particularly silicon chips. 

How often have the words dreadful and fab occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )