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dire
[ dahyuhr ]
adjective
- causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
a dire calamity.
- indicating trouble, disaster, misfortune, or the like:
dire predictions about the stock market.
- urgent; desperate:
in dire need of food.
dire
/ daɪə /
adjective
- Alsodireful disastrous; fearful
- desperate; urgent
a dire need
- foreboding disaster; ominous
a dire warning
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Derived Forms
- ˈdireness, noun
- ˈdirely, adverb
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Other Words From
- direly adverb
- direness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dire1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dire1
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Example Sentences
So, what happens if nothing in his training has replicated such a dire condition?
“Driving on both sides, getting around cars, letting them know I was in a dire emergency,” Johnson says.
Kim Jung-un clearly recognizes that Hollywood and American popular culture in general constitute a dire threat.
The results of that rash decision, the most dire of which has been the rise of ISIS, are now plain for us to see.
The dire fatalism that dominated the discourse then is gone, replaced largely with a practiced apathy.
De moi, je ne say qu'en dire, d'autant que je ne veux affirmer ny le si ny le non en ce dont je n'ay vidence.
Car les Angloys s'en veulent dire maistres, et sur ce ils produysoyent des lettres de leur Roy, mais ce que nous croyons fausses.
In fact it was a battle between the dire disease and that powerful constitution for which the Brown family is celebrated.
A terrific roar followed, the canvas was instantly torn open, and the whole tent fell in dire confusion on the top of its inmates.
Some are on wood, some on porcelain, some on glass, some on dire deeds intent.
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