Direful
Direful adjective - Being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come.
Usage example: the stock market crash was the first direful indication of the dark days to come
Minatory
Minatory adjective - Being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come.
Usage example: the novel's protagonist is haunted by a minatory black specter
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- foreboding and direful
- foreboding and minatory
- forbidding and direful
- forbidding and minatory
- baleful and direful
- baleful and minatory
- baneful and direful
- baneful and minatory
- sinister and direful
- sinister and minatory
- inauspicious and direful
- inauspicious and minatory
- black and direful
- black and minatory
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Minatory and Direful. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/direful/minatory
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