direful

1. I am the greatest, able to do least, yet most suspected, as the time and place doth make against me of this direful murder;
   时间和地点都可以作不利于我的证人，在这场悲惨的血案中，我虽然是一个能力最薄弱的人，但却是嫌疑最重的人。
2. Gratiano.'Tis some mischance; the cry is very direful.
   葛莱西安诺出了什麽乱子啦？这叫声很是凄惨。

adj

1. causing fear or dread or terror
   1. the awful war
   2. an awful risk
   3. dire news
   4. a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked
   5. the dread presence of the headmaster
   6. polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was
   7. a dreadful storm
   8. a fearful howling
   9. horrendous explosions shook the city
   10. a terrible curse

   Synonym:    awfuldiredread(a)dreadeddreadfulfearfulfearsomefrighteninghorrendoushorrificterrible