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View usage for: direful in British English (ˈdaɪəfʊl) adjective literary dire; awful; very bad heedless of the direful consequences that might flow from such an act direful and pestilential diseases direful in American English (ˈdaɪrfəl) Derived forms direfully (ˈdirefully) adverb Examples of 'direful' in a sentencedireful Synonyms of 'direful'dreadful, shocking, terrible, awful More Synonyms of direful Additional synonymsDefinition causing dismay, horror, or revulsion They have been living under the most appalling conditions. Synonyms horrifying, shocking (informal), terrible, alarming, frightening, scaring, awful, terrifying, horrible, grim, dreadful, intimidating, dismaying, horrific, fearful (informal), daunting, dire, astounding, ghastly, hideous, shameful, harrowing, vile, unnerving, petrifying, horrid, unspeakable, frightful, nightmarish, abominable, disheartening, godawful (slang), hellacious (US, slang), from hell (informal) Even if the weather's awful there's still lots to do. Synonyms bad, poor, terrible (informal), appalling, foul, rubbish (slang), shit (taboo, slang), dreadful, unpleasant, dire, crap (taboo, slang), horrendous, ghastly, from hell (informal), atrocious, deplorable, abysmal, frightful, shite (taboo, slang), hellacious (US, slang) Definition resulting in or from disaster a calamitous air crash Synonyms disastrous, terrible, devastating, tragic, fatal, deadly, dreadful, dire, catastrophic, woeful, ruinous, cataclysmic- directness
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