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1. (adj.) direful
dreadful; awful; terrible.
2. direful
indicating trouble:
direful forecasts.
Etymology: (1575–85)
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1. (adj) awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
causing fear or dread or terror
"the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
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1. (adj) direful
dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day
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