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direful
adjective
(dire-ful)
causing fear or dread or terror
Synonyms:
awful
,
dire
,
dread
,
dreaded
,
dreadful
,
fearful
,
fearsome
,
frightening
,
horrendous
,
horrific
,
terrible
,
Examples:
A career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked.
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direful
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,
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,
horrendous
,
horrific
,
terrible
,
frightful
,
dreadly
,
ghastful
,
ghastly
,
scelestic
,
horrid
,
hideous
,
gashful
,
horrible
,
bodeful
,
calamitous
,
infaust
,
nefandous
,
dismayful
,
disadventurous
,
misdread
,
lamentable
,
horrisonous
,
gruesome
,
unappalled
,
ugsome
,
atrocious
,
torvous
,
grisly
,
ominous
,
torved
,
doomful
,
dismal
,
disastrous
,
preominate
,
overawful
,
baleful
,
cataclysmal
,
wlatsome
,
woeful
,
inauspicious
,
portentous
,
grim
,
hellish
,
unauspicious
,
heinous
,
monstrous
,
displeasant
,
scary
,
eerisome
,
agrise
,
loathsome
,
nightmarish
,
wanchancy
,
vengeable
,
plagueful
,
wicked
,
affear
,
bloodcurdling
,
ogreish
,
wretched
,
glummy
,
wrackful
,
unchancy
,
wailful
,
deplorableness
,
groanful
,
dislikeful
,
dreadable
,
disadventure
,
doleful
,
cacophobia
,
sombrous
,
spookish
,
abominable
,
disgustful
,
loathly
,
deplorability
,
ruinous
,
gut wrench
,
unpleasant
,
eerie
,
tormentful
,
felonous
,
abysmal
,
odious
,
grievous
,
panomphean
,
ghastness
,
unspeakable
,
sombre
,
vile
,
cruel
,
direful
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