dire

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

awful

horrible

dreadful

frightful

ghastly

terrible

horrendous

extreme

appalling

dreaded

horrific

desperate

horrid

direful

eerie

dread

grisly

atrocious

hideous

bitter

evil

fearful

😨

fearsome

formidable

frightening

morbid

nethermost

obnoxious

odious

outermost

parlous

provoking

rearmost

redoubtable

repulsive

serious

shitty

sunless

ultimate

ultra

utmost

uttermost

dreich

abject

drearsome

abominable

appaling

baneful

beastly

chilling

Translations

extrême

terrível

horrível

terrible

horrible

affreux

adoentado

🤢

sinistre

schrecklich

terribile

furchtbar

atroce

funeste

redoutable

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/

Etymology

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