Direful is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 163 anagrams from letters in direful (defilru).
First recorded in 1575-85; dire + -ful
To and fro, to and fro, the dying man continued his direful walk.
And what of the patient for whom the direful prognosis was intended?
Added to his other disappointments, a direful change had taken place at camp.
As if all these direful outrages were not the natural results of slavery!
Bodies of the slain lay heaped about the ditch, sad and direful proofs of the fearful struggle on that well-remembered night.
I left him, with a strong foreboding that he would work me some direful mischief.
She felt instinctively that the name was one of direful omen to herself.
That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.
Wafted on the wind followed that direful "Whoop-ah-ho-o-oh!"
In their direful extremity they would fain "flee from the presence of God."
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