direful查询结果如下:
音标:['daɪəfəl]
名词同根词 :direfulness
副词同根词 :direfully
基本释义/说明:adj.可怕的;可怖的;不祥的()
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|adjective|

‘From classical times, too, we have the phrase ‘deus ex machina’ to describe those dramas in which a hideously _direful_ circumstance is abruptly set to rights through the intercession of some benevolent god or other.’