dreads
Awaits with dread
Dreads is short for dreadlocks—rope-like strands of matted or braided hair.
The style has roots in Rastafarian culture but has spread widely: She's been growing her dreads for three years.
Dreads also serves as the plural of dread, meaning fears or anxieties: Sunday night dreads kicked in before the work week.
Matted rope-shaped hair
- twistsRotational bends or turns
- coilsConnected loops of material
- braidsInterwoven hair sections
- cornrowsScalp-hugging braided rows
natural · matting · interlocking · freeform · sisterlocks · wax · maintenance · sectioning
Jamaican offbeat music style
- JamaicaCaribbean island nation
- ZionBiblical promised homeland
- Lion of JudahMessianic emblem from scripture
- RastafariJamaican movement honoring Ethiopian divinity
Bob Marley · natty · Ethiopia · roots · dub · One Love · spirituality · covenant
Nervous anticipation of trouble
- worryTroubled mental state
- nervousnessState of anxious unease
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- trepidationFearful uncertainty
angst · jitters · restlessness · pit in stomach · cold sweat · sleepless nights · gnawing · nagging
Extreme, overwhelming fear
- horrorExtreme fear or disgust
- nightmareFrightening dream causing wakefulness
- phobiaPersistent irrational dread
- frightSudden intense fear
shudder · chill · tremble · petrify · haunt · eerie · menace · creeping
Suggesting something bad approaches
- portentousOminously significant
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- gloomyDark and dispiriting
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
grim · baleful · threatening · inauspicious · dark · brooding · premonition · impending
locs
Matted rope-shaped hair
cornrows · natural · matting · interlocking · freeform · sisterlocks · wax · maintenance · sectioning · crochet
reggae
Jamaican offbeat music style
- JamaicaCaribbean island nation
- ZionBiblical promised homeland
- Lion of JudahMessianic emblem from scripture
Bob Marley · Rastafari · natty · Ethiopia · roots · dub · One Love · spirituality · covenant · lion
apprehension
Nervous anticipation of trouble
- worryTroubled mental state
- nervousnessState of anxious unease
- uneaseMild persistent worry
trepidation · angst · jitters · restlessness · pit in stomach · cold sweat · sleepless nights · gnawing · nagging · butterflies
terror
Extreme, overwhelming fear
- horrorExtreme fear or disgust
- nightmareFrightening dream causing wakefulness
- phobiaPersistent irrational dread
fright · shudder · chill · tremble · petrify · haunt · eerie · menace · creeping · spine-tingling
ominous
Suggesting something bad approaches
- portentousOminously significant
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
- gloomyDark and dispiriting
doom · grim · baleful · threatening · inauspicious · dark · brooding · premonition · impending · looming
- hairstyles and headdressesbraids, cornrows, locs, turbans, tiaras
- RastafariJah, reggae, Haile Selassie, Bob Marley, Zion
- haircutsbuzz cut, bob cut, bob, buzzcut, undercut
- Bay Area RapOakland, sideshows, Vallejo, ghost riding, turfing
- Nu MetalKorn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Slipknot, Papa Roach
- existential dreadTerror at meaningless being
- creeping dreadSlowly intensifying fearful anticipation
- something dreadfulTerrible occurrence or entity
- penny dreadfulCheap Victorian crime serial
- dread fascinationAttraction mixed with horror
- most dreadful
dread, dreadful, dreary, dreaded, dreadfully, dreadlocks, dreading, dreariness, drear