Synonyms of direful

direful

adjective

1

as in ominous

being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come

the stock market crash was the first direful indication of the dark days to come

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ominous
• sinister
• menacing
• bleak
• threatening
• dire
• portentous
• inauspicious
• somber
• dark
• minatory
• baleful
• unfortunate
• ill
• lonely
• murky
• darkening
• foreboding
• depressive
• desolate
• ill-boding
• grey
• doomy
• black
• unfavorable
• depressing
• gray
• morbid
• unpropitious
• cold
• sombre
• cheerless
• dim
• lonesome
• gloomy
• dismal
• lugubrious
• dreary
• sepulchral
• sullen
• drear
• troubled
• saturnine
• comfortless
• morose
• miserable
• unpromising
• glum
• forlorn
• discouraging
• disconsolate
• funereal
• elegiac
• hopeless
• malignant
• wretched
• evil
• chill
• unlucky
• elegiacal
• disheartening
• dreich
• tenebrous
• cloudy
• godforsaken
• Cimmerian
• plutonian
• ill-starred
• ill-fated
• malign
• sunless
• tenebrific
• star-crossed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• favorable
• promising
• benign
• bright
• golden
• prosperous
• auspicious
• hopeful
• encouraging
• unthreatening
• propitious
• heartening

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• favorable
• promising
• benign
• bright
• golden
• prosperous
• auspicious
• hopeful
• encouraging
• unthreatening
• propitious
• heartening

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2

as in terrifying

causing fear

heard the direful howling of the wolves during the night

Synonyms & Similar Words

• terrifying
• formidable
• horrible
• terrible
• frightening
• scary
• dread
• dreadful
• fearful
• alarming
• frightful
• intimidating
• horrifying
• shocking
• ghastly
• startling
• dire
• eerie
• fearsome
• horrendous
• eery
• gruesome
• creepy
• redoubtable
• forbidding
• troubling
• spine-chilling
• trying
• hair-raising
• threatening
• disturbing
• hideous
• discouraging
• daunting
• unnerving
• perturbing
• disquieting
• weird
• grisly
• demoralizing
• disconcerting
• dismaying
• distressing
• nightmarish
• awful
• horrid
• appalling
• monstrous
• macabre
• atrocious
• grewsome
• bone-chilling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reassuring
• soothing
• comforting
• relaxing
• calming
• tranquilizing
• inviting
• consoling
• quieting
• tranquillizing
• lulling
• nonthreatening
• pacifying
• nonintimidating

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• reassuring
• soothing
• comforting
• relaxing
• calming
• tranquilizing
• inviting
• consoling
• quieting
• tranquillizing
• lulling
• nonthreatening
• pacifying
• nonintimidating

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