Australian English Meaning of direful
dire
Other Australian English words related to dire
- menacing
- ominous
- sinister
- baleful
- bleak
- dark
- darkening
- depressing
- depressive
- desolate
- dire
- foreboding
- grey
- sick
- ill-boding
- inauspicious
- lonely
- menacing
- murky
- portentous
- sombre
- threatening
- unfavourable
- unfortunate
- doom-laden
- Cheerless
- chill, cool
- Cimmerian
- overcast
- cold
- cheerless
- dim
- disconsolate
- disheartening
- disheartening
- dismal
- dismal
- Dreary
- elegiac
- elegiac
- evil
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- gloomy
- God-forsaken
- grey
- hopeless
- ill-fated
- unlucky
- lonesome
- lugubrious
- malignant
- Malignant
- morbid
- glum
- Plutonian
- Saturnine
- sepulchral
- sombre
- sullen
- sunless
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- concerned
- unlucky
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- gloomy
Nearest Words of direful
- directrixes => guidelines
- directrix => Directrix
- directress => headmistress
- directory => directory
- director-stockholder relation => Director-shareholder relationship
- directorship => Directorship
- directories => directories
- directorial => Directorial
- directorate for inter-services intelligence => Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence
- directorate => Directorate
Definitions and Meaning of direful in English
direful (s)
causing fear or dread or terror
direful (a.)
Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.
FAQs About the word direful
dire
causing fear or dread or terrorDire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.
menacing,ominous,sinister,baleful,bleak,dark,darkening,depressing,depressive,desolate
Auspicious,benign,bright,favourable,golden,promising,Prosperous,encouraging,hopeful,auspicious
directrixes => guidelines, directrix => Directrix, directress => headmistress, directory => directory, director-stockholder relation => Director-shareholder relationship,
