direful

direful

美 ['daɪəfəl] 　英 ['daɪəfəl]

• adj.可怕的；悲惨的；预兆不祥的

英汉解释

adj.	1. 可怕的;悲惨的;预兆不祥的

例句

but, bad as it was, he gradually grew to feel that it had not been the most direful mistake in his plan of education.

但尽管糟糕，他还是逐渐感到，在他的教育计划中，这还不算是最可怕的错误。

The surveyor's theodolite is one of the more direful symbols of the twentieth century.

地质勘测员们的经纬仪是20世纪最恐怖的标志之一。