单词 | direful |
释义 | direfuladj. Fraught with dire effects; dreadful, terrible. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [adjective] eislichc888 eyesfulOE awfulc1175 smarta1200 ferlya1225 sternc1275 grisea1300 uglya1300 dreadfula1325 fell?c1335 stout1338 perilousc1380 terriblec1400 ghastfulc1449 timorous1455 epouventable1477 bedreadc1485 dreadablec1490 dreadc1540 buggisha1555 dreaded1556 monster-like1561 dire1567 scareful1567 terrifying1577 scary1582 direful1583 affrighting1592 dismal1594 affrightful1603 diral1606 tirable1607 frighting1619 scaring1641 affrighteninga1651 formidolous1656 terrific1667 terrifical1677 atrocious1733 terrorful1789 orful1845 lurid1850 terrorsome1890 turble1893 timorsome1894 like the wrath of God1936 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Fiv Except these Women weare minded to..folowe their direfull wayes in this cursed kind of..Pride. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. L6v Whenas the direfull feend She saw not stirre..She nigher drew. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. i. 39 Tis some mischance, the cry is very direfull . View more context for this quotation 1637 J. Milton Comus 13 The direfull graspe Of Savage hunger, or of Savage heat? 1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. i. 1 The Wrath of Peleus' Son, the direful Spring Of all the Grecian Woes. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xlii. 561 Their sincerity was attested by direful imprecations. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 477 The direful effects of using lead in the manufacture of pottery. 1852 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire (ed. 2) I. xi. 512 Prodigies of direful import. Derivatives ˈdirefully adv. dreadfully, terribly. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [adverb] dreadlyc1175 eislichec1175 grimlyc1175 ungainlya1200 awly?c1225 grurefulliche?c1225 fiendlyc1275 dreadfullya1400 felly?c1400 awfully1487 terrible1490 terriblya1500 fearingly1556 direly1610 dismally1653 dreadful1682 formidably1685 terrifyingly1767 direfully1775 terrifically1778 terrificly1791 appallingly1825 turble1893 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Direfully (..not much used). 1846 R. C. Trench Christ Desire of All Nations iv. 66 These convictions..men were too direfully earnest in carrying..out. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxii. 560 He passed the night direfully sick in his carriage. ˈdirefulness n. dreadfulness, terribleness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] dreadnessa1175 ferdfulness1398 dreadfulnessc1440 terribility?1473 terrora1500 terriblenessa1533 diritya1600 direness1605 direfulnessa1656 dire1660 terrificness1727 tremendousness1727 fearsomeness1891 terribilità1923 terrifyingness1930 a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) 244 Curtius..describes..the direfullnesse of the tempest. 1782 J. Warton Ess. on Pope (new ed.) II. ix. 173 The direfulness of this pestilence is..emphatically set forth in these few words. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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