What is another word for direful?
Pronunciation:
[ dˈa͡ɪ͡əfə͡l], [ dˈaɪəfəl], [ d_ˈaɪə_f_əl]
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Similar words for direful:
- all (adjective)
- creepy (adjective)
- fateful (adjective)
- fearful; horrible (adjective)
- frightening (adjective)
- frightful/frightening (adjective)
- hellfire (adjective)
- nightmarish (adjective)
- ominous (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- shocking (adjective)
- alarming (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Direful:
adj.
• all (adjective) • creepy (adjective)- dis-gusting,
- hairraising,
- un-pleasant,
- more shuddersome,
- most itching,
- hair raising,
- more itching,
- dis gusting,
- most shuddersome,
- un pleasant.
- unspeakable,
- most dismaying,
- in conceivable,
- most petrifying,
- more dismaying,
- un speakable,
- most traumatic,
- more petrifying,
- most unnerving,
- most horrifying,
- dis-maying,
- more horrifying,
- un nerving,
- most grabber,
- most daunting,
- dis-quieting,
- more grabber,
- un-nerving,
- grisly,
- dis maying,
- more unnerving,
- more daunting,
- un-speakable,
- dis quieting,
- more traumatic,
- in-conceivable.
- un friendlier,
- more malificent,
- pre monitory,
- un promising,
- un-friendlier,
- un lucky,
- most premonitory,
- pre-cursive,
- most malificent,
- most precursive,
- illfated,
- ill fated,
- most malefic,
- un luckier,
- more malefic,
- un-luckiest,
- pre-monitory,
- most presaging,
- more presaging,
- un luckiest,
- un friendliest,
- un-promising,
- illboding,
- more premonitory,
- un-luckier,
- in hospitable,
- un-lucky,
- more precursive,
- un-friendliest,
- more unpromising,
- un propitious,
- un-friendly,
- most unpromising,
- ill boding,
- pre cursive,
- in-hospitable.
n.
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•
- redoubtable,
- tremendous,
- ghastly,
- formidable,
- fear.
Other synonyms:
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•
- baneful.
- minatory,
- horrifying,
- hideous,
- meanly,
- cowardly,
- confoundedly,
- cruel,
- grand,
- nastily,
- noble,
- extremely,
- vilely,
- foreboding,
- fearsomeness,
- dreadfully,
- drearily,
- formidably,
- lacking courage,
- painful,
- fell,
- abysmally,
- doomy,
- Direly,
- severely,
- awe-inspiring,
- macabre,
- august,
- frightfully,
- ghoulish,
- misery,
- terribleness,
- hair-raising,
- coarsely,
- ferociously,
- menacing,
- appallingly,
- awed,
- repulsively,
- abominable,
- dreadfulness,
- abominably,
- disgustingly,
- revolting,
- foully,
- ill,
- badly,
- fiercely,
- horribly,
- sickeningly,
- dismally,
- danger,
- ghostly,
- desperate,
- trepid,
- awfulness,
- brutally,
- enormously,
- awesome,
- eerie,
- sinister,
- rudely,
- intimidating,
- horror,
- wicked,
- solemn,
- awing,
- imposing,
- deadly,
- unhappily,
- shockingly,
- severe,
- astounding,
- timorous,
- outrageously,
- greatly,
- gruesome,
- lurid,
- awfully,
- ghastliness,
- hideously,
- atrocious,
- fearfulness,
- forbidding,
- infernally,
- squally,
- horrible,
- perilous,
- grossly,
- terrifically,
- terrifying,
- grim,
- atrociously,
- sadly,
- spine-chilling,
- unspeakably,
- dreadfuls,
- frightfulness,
- majestic,
- heavily,
- morbid,
- amazing,
- Horribleness,
- threatening,
- outrageous,
- violently,
- excessively,
- ghostlier,
- gruesomeness,
- beastly,
- horridness,
- poorly,
- stately,
- fearfully,
- unpleasantly,
- horridly,
- desperately,
- nasty,
- frightful,
- unpleasantness,
- Direness,
- horrifically,
- dirtily,
- hellishly,
- cruelly.
How to use "Direful" in context?
The word "direful" is defined as being full of worry or sadness. This adjective is most often used to describe situations or people that are very alarming or troublesome. When one uses the word "direful," they are usually emphasizing how serious the situation or person is. For example, when a neighbor starts having loud and chaotic arguments late at night, it would be direful to hear. When describing the weather, a direful description would be "she saw a dismal sunset." In both cases, the speaker is emphasizing how negative or bad the situation is.
There are many different uses for the word "direful.
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