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Webster 1913 Edition
Direful
Dire′ful
,Adj.
[
Dire
+ -ful
.] Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful;
– as, a
direful
fiend; a direful
day. Dire′ful-ly
, adv.
Dire′ful-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Direful
DIREFUL
,Adj.
Definition 2024
direful
direful
English
Adjective
direful (comparative more direful, superlative most direful)
- Fearful, terrible.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.11:
- read what destiny / Or other dyrefull hap from heaven or **** / Hath wrought this wicked deed […].
- 1603-06, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, I.2:
- "As whence the sun gins his reflection, shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break."
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.11: