Direful
Direful adjective - Being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come.
Terrific
Terrific adjective - Extremely disturbing or repellent.
Usage example: a terrific murder that sickened even hard-bitten police officers
Direful and terrific are semantically related in terrible topic. Sometimes you can use "Direful" instead an adjective "Terrific".
Nearby Word: terrifically
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- monstrous and direful
- monstrous and terrific
- hideous and direful
- hideous and terrific
- terrible and direful
- terrible and terrific
- dreadful and direful
- dreadful and terrific
- frightful and direful
- frightful and terrific
- horrendous and direful
- horrendous and terrific
- horrible and direful
- horrible and terrific
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