Dire vs. Direful

Direadjective

Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.

Direadjective

Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.

Direadjective

Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal

Direadjective

(informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.

Direadjective

Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.

Direadjective

Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.

Direadjective

fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless;

Direadjective

causing fear or dread or terror;

Direadjective

extremely serious or urgent

Direadjective

(of a warning or threat) presaging disaster

Direadjective

of a very poor quality

Direfuladjective

Fearful, terrible.

Direfuladjective

Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day.

Direfuladjective

causing fear or dread or terror;