📖 Definitions of "Direful"
adjective
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Fearful, terrible.
🔄 Synonyms of "Direful"
12 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| dreadnoun | (transitive) To fear greatly. |
| dreadfulnoun | Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky. |
| alarming | Causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening. |
| awfulnoun | Very bad. |
| fearsome | frightening, especially in appearance. |
| fearful | Frightening; causing fear. |
| terrible | Very unpleasant; disagreeable. |
| horrific | Causing horror; horrifying. |
| horrendous | Extremely bad; awful; terrible. |
| dreaded | Causing fear, dread, or terror. |
| frightening | Causing fear; or capable of causing fear; scary. |
| direnoun | Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Direful"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| dreaded | Causing fear, dread, or terror. |
| terrible | Very unpleasant; disagreeable. |
| dread | Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded. |
| dreadful | Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming; dangerous, risky. |
| horrific | Causing horror; horrifying. |
| fearful | Frightening; causing fear. |
| fearsome | frightening, especially in appearance. |
| frightening | Causing fear; or capable of causing fear; scary. |
| horrendous | Extremely bad; awful; terrible. |
| alarming | Causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening. |
| awful | Very bad. |
| dire | Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing. |
| frightful | Genuinely horrific, awful, or alarming. |
| grimful | Characterised by grimness; harsh, wrathful, terrible. |
| affreuxnoun | A group of particularly brutal mercenaries who were active in Africa and Asia during the 1960s. |
| horrid | Causing horror or dread. |
| timorous | Tending to be easily frightened; shy, timid. |
| shuddersomenoun | Causing one to shudder; fearsome. |
| dreadsome | Marked by dread; dreadful; alarming. |
| deathful | Involving the danger of death; fatal, deadly. |
🎨 Adjectives for "Direful"
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🏷️ Nouns for "Direful"
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