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Definition of Direfully
1. Adverb. In a direful manner. "Seeing himself trapped, he cried out direfully"
Partainyms: Direful
Definition of Direfully
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Direfully
Literary usage of Direfully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1844)
"Why, he says, "I am short of wit, very ill- tempered, direfully cross, and have
nothing to say. ... direfully cross! JULIA. Better still I DUKE. ..."
2. Dombey and Son. by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848)
"... consolatory then, when the impotence of his will, the instability of his hopes,
the feebleness of wealth, had been so direfully im- pressed upo« him. ..."
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