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(Engels)

  1. Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
  2. Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
  3. Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
  4. (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
  5. Ferocious and of intimidating appearance, like a dire wolf.

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/ˈdaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/
Etymologie (Engels)

Borrowed from Latin dīrus (“fearful, ominous”).

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urgent
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desperate situation serious terrible hopeless severe

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