Usually means: Causing or involving great fear.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word direful:

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  1. direful: Merriam-Webster
  2. direful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. direful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. direful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. direful: Vocabulary.com
  6. Direful, direful: Wordnik
  7. direful: Wiktionary
  8. direful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. direful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. direful: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Direful, direful: Dictionary.com
  12. Direful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. direful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. direful: Rhymezone
  15. Direful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. direful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. direful: FreeDictionary.org
  18. direful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. direful: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. direful: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. direful: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Fearful, terrible.

Similar:
fearsome, dreadful, horrific, frightening, terrible, horrendous, alarming, dreaded, awful, fearful, more...

Opposite:
auspicious, favorable, promising, fortunate, lucky

Types:
dismal, gloomy, bleak, cheerless, dreary, melancholy, mournful, more...

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Similar:
fearsome, dreadful, horrific, frightening, terrible, horrendous, alarming, dreaded, awful, fearful, more...

Opposite:
auspicious, favorable, promising, fortunate, lucky

Types:
dismal, gloomy, bleak, cheerless, dreary, melancholy, mournful, more...



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