direful in English
adjective
1
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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1. 13 synonyms for Apocalyptical: apocalyptic, baneful, dire, direful, fateful, fire-and
2. 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"