'Direfully' definitions:

Definition of 'direfully'

From: WordNet
adverb
In a direful manner; "seeing himself trapped, he cried out direfully"

Definition of 'Direfully'

From: GCIDE
  • Direful \Dire"ful\, a. [Dire + -ful.] Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day. -- {Dire"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Dire"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]