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Adjective: direful  dIr-ful
  1. Causing fear or dread or terror
    "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"
    - awful, dire, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible

See also: alarming, direfully