Word: direful

Category: direful

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Synonyms: direful

waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels

Translations: direful

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spanish
Translations:
atroz
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french
Translations:
effrayant, affreux, horrible, effroyable, abominable, formidable, atroce, terrible, épouvantable, redoutable
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russian
Translations:
страшный, зловещий, ужасный
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finnish
Translations:
kauhea, pelottava
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danish
Translations:
forfærdelig, frygtelig
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czech
Translations:
strašný, příšerný, hrozný
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polish
Translations:
straszny
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hungarian
Translations:
irtózatos
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estonian
Translations:
ängistav, õudustäratav
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lithuanian
Translations:
baisus
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latvian
Translations:
briesmīgs, šausmīgs
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romanian
Translations:
oribil
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slovak
Translations:
strašlivý, hrozný

The meaning and "use of": direful

adjective
  • extremely bad; dreadful. - Indeed, he is reaching down to that best-known of lieder Schubert published as his Opus 1, and reanimating, in his kaleidoscopic way, the direful night-time gallop of a father and son pursued by a pure demonic force.

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