direful

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7

Definition of direful

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Fearful, terrible.
    “I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]”
    “read what destiny / Or other dyrefull hap from heaven or hell / Hath wrought this wicked deed […].”
    “"As whence the sun gins his reflection, shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break."”

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Etymology

From dire + -ful.

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