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
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Miserable and Direful. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 09, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/direful/miserable
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