| ADJECTIVE | all | direful, awful, dire, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible | causing fear or dread or terror |
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| Meaning | Causing fear or dread or terror. | |
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| Example | "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked" | |
| Synonyms | awful, dire, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible | |
| Broader | alarming | Frightening because of an awareness of danger |
| Spanish | alarmante, calamitoso, espantosa, espantoso, fatal, horrendo, horrible, horrorosa, horroroso, pavoroso, sobrecogedor, temible, temido, terrible, tremendo | |
| Catalan | alarmant, calamitós, esfereïdor, espantós, esparverador, fatal, horrible, horripilant, horrorós, paorós, temible, terrible | |
| Adverbs | direfully | in a direful manner |
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