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21frightful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. horrible, shocking; informal, unpleasant, disagreeable. See fear, ugliness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Causing fright] Syn. fearful, awful, dreadful, horrifying, frightening, terrifying, alarming,… …
22ominous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. inauspicious, bodeful, fateful. See warning, prediction, threat. Ant., unthreatening. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. foreboding, portentous, threatening, forbidding, fateful, baleful, menacing,… …
23αἰνόπαριν — Αἰνόπαρις direful Paris masc acc sg αἰνόπαρις direful Paris fem acc sg …
24αἰνόπαρις — direful Paris masc nom sg αἰνόπαρις direful Paris fem nom sg …
25dreaded — adjective 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 …
26frightening — I noun the act of inspiring with fear • Syn: ↑terrorization, ↑terrorisation • Derivationally related forms: ↑frighten, ↑terrorise (for: ↑terrorisation), ↑ …
27-FUL — comb. form forming: 1 adjectives from nouns, meaning: a full of (beautiful). b having the qualities of (masterful). 2 adjectives from adjectives or Latin stems with little change of sense (direful; grateful). 3 adjectives from verbs, meaning apt… …
28dire´ful|ness — dire|ful «DYR fuhl», adjective. dire; dreadful; terrible: »direful news. One has no great hopes from Birmingham; I always say there is something direful in the sound (Jane Austen). –dire´ful|ly, adverb. –dire´ful|ness, noun …
29dire´ful|ly — dire|ful «DYR fuhl», adjective. dire; dreadful; terrible: »direful news. One has no great hopes from Birmingham; I always say there is something direful in the sound (Jane Austen). –dire´ful|ly, adverb. –dire´ful|ness, noun …
30dire|ful — «DYR fuhl», adjective. dire; dreadful; terrible: »direful news. One has no great hopes from Birmingham; I always say there is something direful in the sound (Jane Austen). –dire´ful|ly, adverb. –dire´ful|ness, noun …
