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Meanings of
direful
in English
Causing fear or dread or terror.
terrible
awful
dreadful
fearful
dread
dreaded
scary
frightening
dire
horrific
Related terms
alarming
Usage of
direful
in English
1
The
direful
youths fought in the Steynham stables, overheard by the grooms.
2
He felt himself supremely helpless in the presence of the
direful
calamity.
3
At night the scene was far more
direful
than in the day.
4
They discovered uncharted islands and cheerfully fought savages or suffered
direful
shipwreck.
5
In such a case, how avert the chances of a
direful
conflict?
6
When he arrived in his native land he learned of two
direful
events.
7
She felt instinctively that the name was one of
direful
omen to herself.
8
To-day the contemplation of that commonplace garden gave him
direful
pain.
9
This, I am sure, will avert the bloody and
direful
conflict.
10
First, Jemmy Tweedle felt on his hinder head the
direful
bone.
11
It seemed as if poverty became ever more
direful
,
and dissatisfaction more importunate.
12
The three men knew that she brought momentous, perchance
direful
,
intelligence.
13
That
direful
mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.
14
You who make dramas, you will never invent anything as
direful
as that.
15
To hang upon that which is dark,
direful
,
and saddening tends to degeneracy.
16
The day had been too full, too full of
direful
things.
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direful
Adjective
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
direful consequences
direful effects
most direful
direful threat
direful calamities
More collocations
Direful
through the time
Direful
across language varieties
United Kingdom
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