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Definition of Direful
1. Adjective. Causing fear or dread or terror. "A terrible curse"
Similar to: Alarming
Derivative terms: Awfulness, Dread, Terribleness
Definition of Direful
1. a. Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.
Definition of Direful
1. Adjective. inspiring fear; fearful, terrible ¹
2. Adjective. portending disaster; portentous; ominous ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Direful
1. dreadful [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Direful
Literary usage of Direful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Connecticut River and the Valley of the Connecticut: Three Hundred and by Edwin Munroe Bacon (1907)
"... Philip's War in the Valley The direful Conflict of 1676-1676 Centering in the
Massachusetts Reach — Philip of the Wampanoags — The frontier River Towns ..."
2. History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1913)
"Of the Military Reconstruction act with its amendments —this statute scheme of
1867—, Mr. Rhodes observes: “No law so unjust in its policy, so direful in ..."
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