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Definition of Direful

Direful
Direful Dire"ful, a. [Dire + -ful.] Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day. -- Dire"ful*ly, adv. -- Dire"ful*ness, n.

Meaning of Direful from wikipedia

- potently believed." In addition, he "took pleasure in reading old Mather's direful tales till dusk after school. Moreover, no supernatural story or superstition...
- his maternal aunt, i.e., his father's sister, Srikanth. In the past, the direful Lokeswara Rao turns Srikanth into a dissident, whom Parvati reforms, and...
- The film begins with frightful ruffian Kattula Kondayya, emplo**** by two direful MLA Madhava Rao and his brother-in-law Prasad Rao, who conspires with one...
- involving suffering or fire, although it nevertheless describes it as a "direful condition". The souls of the righteous dead are in light and rest, with...
- far did he go in his presumption, that when a soothsayer once reported direful inwards [sic] without a heart, he said: "They will be more favourable when...
- 1688–1744, poet 1715 London, Bernard Lintot Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing! Tickell, Thomas 1685–1740...
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- [T]he pope's legates, in A.D. 1054, deposited on the altar of St. Sophia a direful anathema... and from this thunderbolt we may date the consummation of the...
- country are indebted for many mitigations of the suffering caused by the direful p****ions of war." Geary County, Kansas, was renamed in honor of John W...