DIRE


Meaning of DIRE in English

adj. 25B6; adjective

the dire economic situation : TERRIBLE, dreadful, appalling, frightful, awful, atrocious, grim, alarming; grave, serious, disastrous, ruinous, hopeless, irretrievable, wretched, desperate, parlous; formal grievous.

he was in dire need of help : URGENT, desperate, pressing, crying, sore, grave, serious, extreme, acute, drastic.

dire warnings of fuel shortages : OMINOUS, gloomy, grim, dismal, unpropitious, inauspicious, unfavourable, pessimistic.

(informal) the concert was dire. : See awful sense 2.

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