Dire vs Frightful - What's the difference?
dire | frightful |
Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
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, title= Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
(label) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
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, title= (obsolete): Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.
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Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance.
(Used as an intensifier)
As a verb dire
is .As an adjective frightful is
(obsolete): full of fright; affrighted; frightened.dire
English
Adjective
(en-adj)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.
Norwich 4-2 Newcastle, passage=A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header.}}
Quotations
* (English Citations of "dire")Derived terms
* direful * direly * direness * dire sisters * dire straits * dire wolfSee also
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* * * ----frightful
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* frightfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- We wasted a frightful amount of money on renovations.