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Definition: Direful |
DirefulAdjective1. Causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "direful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
Note: Direful \Dire"ful\, adjective. [Dire -ful.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DirefulSynonyms: awful (adj), dire (adj), dread(a) (adj), dreaded (adj), dreadful (adj), fearful (adj), fearsome (adj), frightening (adj), horrendous (adj), horrific (adj), terrible (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fear | Inspiring fear; Verb: alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous; (danger); portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire, direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible, horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting; (painful); Gorgonian. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Direful |
| English words defined with "direful": awful ♦ dire, direfully, dread, dreaded, dreadful ♦ fearful, fearsome, frightening ♦ horrendous, horrific ♦ terrible. (references) |
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 | Clock tower; midnight; wolf; witching hour; ominous; apocalyptic; augural; baleful; baneful; clouded; dangerous; dark; dire; direful; dismal; doomed; doomful; fateful; fearful; forbidding; gloomy; grim; haunting; hostile; ill-boding; ill-fated; impending. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Jane Austen | One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
Expression using "direful": be in direful need of. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "direful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i tmerrshëm (appalling, awesome, awful, Creese, damnable, darn, deadly, deuced, dire, eldritch, enormous, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, macabre, parlous, perishing, redoubtable, redoubted, sad, scary, terrible, terrific, towering, tragic, tremendous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | страхотен (awesome, devilish, fearsome, formidable, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, morbid, tremendous, unearthly), ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, desperate, deuced, devastating, dire, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | strašlivý (dreadful, gruesome, stark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | grässlich (abominable, abominably, atrocious, awful, damnable, damnably, dire, dreadful, excruciating, excruciatingly, ghastly, grisly, heinous, hideous, horrible, horribly, horrid, horridly, infernal, miserable, miserably, monstrous, nauseating, putrid, terrible, terribly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φρικτόσ (appalling, atrocious, dire, dismals, ghastly, gruesome, hideous, horrible), τρομερόσ (awful, dire, formidable, frightful, grisly, redoubtable, terrible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | borzalmas (awful, desperate, gruesome, horrid, outrageous, scary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | terribile (abysmal, appaling, appalling, awful, dire, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, gruesome, horrible, splitting, terrible, terrific, tremendous), spaventoso (appaling, appalling, awesome, awful, dire, dismal, dreadful, dreary, fearful, frightening, ghastly, grim, grisly, horrible, nasty, terrific). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | irefulday terrível (abysmal, awesome, awful, deadly, desperate, dire, dread, dreadful, elect, fearful, fearsome, fell, frightful, grisly, gruesome, hideout, horrible, horrid, lurid, parlous, redoubtable, redoubted, terrible, terrific, tragic, tremendous, ungodly), medonho (awful, dire, dread, Dreadnought, forbidding, frightful, grisly, hideous, horribly, inferno, terrible, tremendous), horrível (abysmal, awful, dismal, dread, dreadful, dreary, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, horrific, nasty, terrible, unholy). (various references) teribil (awful, awfully, damnably, dreadful, exceedingly, excruciating, extraordinary, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, like old boot, terrible, terribly, terrific, tremendous), îngrozitor (abominable, appalling, awful, awfully, beastly, desperate, dreadful, grisly, hideous, horrible, shocking, terrible, terribly, terrific, tremendous). (various references) ужасный (appalling, atrocious, awful, blood-curding, chilling, chronic, damnable, damned, desperate, dire, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruelling, gruesome, hair raising, hair-raising, hairy, heinous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, macabre, perishing, spooky, terrible, tragic, unearthy). (various references) strašan (almighty, awful, dire, dreadful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, horrible, horrid, howling, redoubtable, redoubted, terrible, terrific), grozan (atrocious, awful, creepy, dire, ghastly, grisly, horrendous, lurid, macabre, plaguy, terrible). (various references) horrible (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, appalling, awful, bleak, dire, dirty, dismal, dread, dreary, evil, formidably, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, lousy, lurid, moldy, mouldy, nasty, shocking, stinking, terrible, terror, vile, wicked). (various references) เลวร้าย (heinous). (various references) dehşetli (dire, fearful, fearsome, frightful, horrendous, terrifying), son derece (all-fired, almighty, arrant, awfully, beyond measure, cruelly, damn, damned, darned, deadly, deeply, desperately, dire, exceedingly, exceptionally, extreme, extremely, extremity, highly, immensely, in the extreme, in the highest degree, infinitely, intense, intensely, jolly, last, out and out, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, strongly, sublime, terribly, thundering, to the nth degree, to the utmost, unco, utmost, uttermost, veriest, with a vengeance), müthiş (almighty, appalling, awful, bang up, beastly, colossal, deadly, devastating, devilish, dire, fabulous, fearful, filthy, formidable, frightful, gee-whiz, helluva, prodigious, ripping, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, stunning, stupendous, superb, swell, tearing, terrible, terrific, thundering, unco, wild), korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, scary, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying), acil (crying, exigent, immediate, importunate, insistent, instant, pressing, urgent). (various references) жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, desperate, deuced, devilish, dire, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tragic, tremendous, ungodly, wretched). (various references) thảm khốc (cruel, dire), t n khốc (cruel, cutthroat), kinh khủng (desperate, formidable, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, tremendous), khốc liệt (cutthroat, dire). (various references) echryslon (horrible, shocking), anaele (awful, incurable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "direful": direfully. (additional references) | |
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"Direful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Darfold, Dibekulu, Dilrafo, Dormeuil, dredful, Dubreuil, durafelt, duriful, lineful, pipeful, tymeful. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-l-r-u" | |
-1 letter: furled, ireful, rifled. | |
-2 letters: felid, field, filed, filer, fired, flied, flier, flued, fluid, fried, idler, lifer, lured, lurid, rifle, riled, ruled. | |
-3 letters: defi, deil, delf, deli, diel, dire, dirl, duel, dure, feud, file, fire, fled, flue, fuel, furl, idle, ired, leud, lied, lief, lier, lieu, life, lire, lude, lure, reif, ride, riel, rife. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-l-r-u" | |
+1 letter: dirgeful, fluoride, flurried, prideful, unrifled. | |
+2 letters: dipperful, direfully, fluidizer, fluorides, lifeguard, remindful. | |
+3 letters: dipperfuls, flourished, fluidizers, fluoridate, formulized, lifeguards, outfielder, pridefully, sulfurized, superfluid, trisulfide, unfiltered, unfriendly. | |
+4 letters: butterflied, desulfuring, desulfurize, disgraceful, distressful, faultfinder, floundering, fluoridated, fluoridates, fluorinated, lifeguarded, outfielders, reliquefied, requalified, superfluids, trisulfides, unclarified. | |
+5 letters: desulfurized, desulfurizes, disregardful, faultfinders, filibustered, fluidextract, formularized, furazolidone, lifeguarding, perfidiously, prequalified, pridefulness, ultrarefined, unfertilized, unfriendlier. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 72 65 66 75 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. .-. . ..-. ..- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100110 01110101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i r e f u l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0072 0065 0066 0075 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38758471728778 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | gjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, Groegwr |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumunský, rumunština, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandês, tailandés, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Ukranian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
Welsh | geirlyfr, geiriadur, diffiniad, darnodiad, trosiad | shkel premtimin, populli i uellsit, ik pa paguar, i uellsit, gjuha e uellsit, уелски, уелски език, не си плащам дълга, измъквам се от задължение, waleský, waleština, walisisch, ουάλλοσ, ουαλλικόσ, δεν πληρώνω τα οφειλόμενα, walesi, gallese, galês, limba velşã, velş, din ţara galilor, уэльский, velšanin, podvaliti, velški jezik, velški, galés, galler ile ilgili, gal dili, bahisleri ödemeden kaçmak, ödemeden kaçmak, sözünü tutmamak, şartları yerine getirmemek, у"льський, не віддати гроші, валлійська мова, валлійський, валлійці, Cymreig |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова, Saesneg |
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