Direful is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DIREFUL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• dreadful
• extremely bad; dreadful.
• Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.
• causing fear or dread or terror
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• same as dire

Words related to DIREFUL

dire5 direfully16

Words that contain DIREFUL

direfully16 direfulness15 direfulnesses17

How to use DIREFUL in a sentence

• Till then, I would consider the helpless girl, tongue-tied by her condition, and injured enough already by my misplaced love and its direful consequences.
• His hostility to Abelard was direful, since he looked upon him as undermining Christianity and extinguishing faith in the world.
• It is recorded that out of twenty of those sticks, thrown with savage and direful intent, only one hit.
• For first he made at the King of an Hundred Knights, and he struck that knight so direful a blow that both horse and man fell to the ground with the force thereof.
• Alas! too little do we calculate on the direful effects of this species of amusement on the future character of the young.
• Not a word was uttered among the countless multitude that thronged the hill-sides and plains, whilst the priest performed his direful duty to the gods.
• I had read of cases in which the appearance, at first harmless, had, step by step, degenerated into something direful and insupportable, and ended by wearing its victim out.
• We cannot hide from you, Sir, the direful consequences of expressions so opposed to the constant principles of our national code.
• This is a direful need, that all my warriors should lie low in death before them.
• He had met Governor Shannon fleeing from the Territory, who drew for him a direful picture of the official inheritance to which he had come.
• In most of these countries the feudal system existed in all its direful oppression.
• The first direful possibility is in the choice of material.
• Her death is announced by a cry from her women so sudden and direful that it would thrill her husband with horror if he were any longer capable of fear.
• The hour appointed for the beginning of this direful programme was the day when the senators and the troops should assemble to take the oath of allegiance to Nicholas.
• It is with the building raised after this direful calamity that our history has to deal.
• As he went on, and it became evident to her what a strong hold on his affections Barbara had gained, the fear arose lest he might be on the brink of a direful disappointment.
• God can easily hinder the scather From deeds so direful.
• Lucia wore the same kind of dress, but with less direful effects upon her appearance.
• It was many a day before the effects of this direful calamity were entirely obliterated.
• Unfortunately, the scaffolding broke beneath the crowd, and many spectators were burned or drowned, and that which began as an entertaining spectacle ended as a direful reality.
• Lucy came presently for the hot water with a bulletin of progress growing each moment more direful.
• Direful hate and eternal separation from the crown of Spain would, on the instant, be forcibly declared.
• Thou canst be calm, thou canst renounce, led on by necessity, thou canst advance to the direful struggle, with the courage of a hero.
• The moral agent grew pale with jealousy, when Doctor Direful was announced.
• Direful returned to the centre of the room, and mounted a desk to commence his lecture.
• A messenger traced me out, bringing intelligence of the direful event that had happened, and informing me that my father was a prisoner at Theobalds.
• Bring this home to your own breast, Sir Jocelyn, and think how direful would be your lot to be driven for ever from her you love.
• I tried to ascertain the cause of their terror, but could only elicit the statement that to kill a pilot fish meant direful misfortune.
• In order to attach the two caciques more closely to his interest and to convert them into allies, he denounced the chieftain of the island, with direful threats.
• Wilford regarding Helen as an obstacle in his path, and Helen regarding him as a tyrant contemplating some direful harm against her sister.
• The direful potion burnt like fire in his veins, for its effect was made, perhaps, still more sudden from the wine he had drunk previously.
• And he, King Margaris, sorely wounded, his spear broken, his shield pierced and battered, fled with the direful news to King Marsil.
• The empress herself went to her brother in his concealment and informed him of the direful choice before him.

Similar words containing DIRE without suffix ful

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