dire

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dire Definition

• (s) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency"
• (s) causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "

dire Synonyms

• awful
• desperate
• dire
• direful
• dread(a)
• dreaded
• dreadful
• fearful
• fearsome
• frightening
• horrendous
• horrific
• terrible