dire in English dictionary

  • dire

    Meanings and definitions of "dire"

    • Ill-boding; portentous.
    • Dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
    • Urgent, pressing.
    • adjective
      Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
    • adjective
      Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
    • adjective
      Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
    • adjective
      (informal)
      Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
    • ill-boding
    • evil in great degree
    • Fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless.
    • adjective
      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"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
    • adjective
      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"

    Synonyms of "dire" in English dictionary

    alarming, direful, horrendous are the top synonyms of "dire" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of dire

    • dire ( comparative direr or more dire, superlative direst or most dire)
    • dire (comparative direr or more dire, superlative direst or most dire)
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