Crossword-Solution: DIREFUL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Direful | a. | Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DIREFUL | anagram | ERFLUID |
We have 12 clues for the answer “DIREFUL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like a bad omen | 1 answer |
| Gruesome | 41 answers |
| formidable | 44 answers |
| horrendous | 46 answers |
| Calamitous | 46 answers |
| Harrowing | 47 answers |
| Ghastly | 60 answers |
| grim | 76 answers |
| Dire | 76 answers |
| Horrible | 81 answers |
| Ominous | 82 answers |
| Terrible | 84 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MECZAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DIREFUL (5)
His heart almost ceased to beat as he quite naturally placed the most direful explanation upon the scene.
But the sermon came to an end without any line of conduct having suggested itself; and I walked home in some depression, feeling sadly that Venus was in the ascendant and in direful opposition, while Auriga--the circus star--drooped declinant, perilously near the horizon.
The captains therefore being fled into the castle, the enemy, without much resistance, possess themselves of the rest of the town, and spreading themselves as they went into every corner, they cried out as they marched, according to the command of the tyrant, ‘Hell-fire! Hell-fire! Hell-fire!’ so that nothing for a while throughout the town of Mansoul could be heard but the direful noise of ‘Hell-fire!’ together with the roaring of Diabolus’s drum.
What if in wild amazement and affright, Or, while we speak, within the direful grasp Of savage hunger, or of savage heat! ELD.
Had an enemy's fleet been hovering on the coast, or his armies trampling on our soil, the people would probably have committed their defence to that same direful conqueror who had wrought their own calamity, and would permit no interference with his sway.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1976–2010).