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Best answers for direful – Crossword Clue


Answer: abominable


Clue Length Answer
direful5 letterscruel
  1. Definition: 1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks"

direful7 lettersfearful
  1. Definition: 1. experiencing or showing fear; "a fearful glance"; "fearful of criticism"

direful7 lettersunlucky
  1. Definition: 1. marked by or promising bad fortune; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott

direful8 lettersterrible
  1. Definition: 1. causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"

direful8 lettersshocking
  1. Definition: 1. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident"

direful8 lettersterrific
  1. Definition: 1. causing extreme terror; "a terrifying wail"

direful10 letterstremendous
  1. Definition: 1. extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a plane took off with a tremendous noise"

direful10 lettersabominable
  1. Definition: 1. exceptionally bad or displeasing;

direful11 lettersredoubtable
  1. Definition: 1. inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall"


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