Meaning of direful in English
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Classifying Adjective
direfulDefinitions
1. causing fear or dread or terrorExamples
- « 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 »
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