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Another word for direful

adjective

Causing or able to cause fear:
appalling, dire, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, redoubtable, scary, terrible, tremendous. See fear
Portending future disaster:
apocalyptic, apocalyptical, baneful, dire, fateful, fire-and-brimstone, grave², hellfire, ominous, portentous, unlucky. See luck, warn

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Two parties were contending in the state, and their obstinacy could not fail to produce a most direful collision.

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