Meaning

1 senses
  1. Fearful, terrible.

More definitions
  • causing fear or dread or terror

Origin

From dire + -ful.

From dire + -ful.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

more direful, most direful
Comparativemore direful Lesson
Superlativemost direful Lesson

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
direful — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto