Synonyms for Dire:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • desperate.
  •awful (adjective)
  • alarming,
  • appalling,
  • awful,
  • dreadful,
  • frightful,
  • ghastly,
  • hideous,
  • horrible,
  • horrid,
  • repulsive,
  • terrible,
  • unpleasant.
  •deplorable (adjective)
  • scandalous,
  • wretched.
  •destructive (adjective)
  • Wreckful.
  •disappointing (adjective)
  • heartbreaking.
  •evil (adjective)
  • sinister.
  •extreme (adjective)
  • egregious,
  • extreme.
  •fateful (adjective)
  • hellfire.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • grisly.
  •frightening (adjective)
  • nightmarish.
  •harmful (adjective)
  • malefic.
  •hellfire (adjective)
  • fire-and-brimstone.
  •important (adjective)
  • burning.
  •painful (adjective)
  • nagging.
  •ruinous (adjective)
  • ruinous,
  • tumbledown.
  •terrible, ominous (adjective)
  • afflictive,
  • alarming,
  • appalling,
  • awful,
  • black,
  • calamitous,
  • cataclysmic,
  • catastrophic,
  • cruel,
  • deplorable,
  • depressing,
  • disastrous,
  • dismal,
  • distressing,
  • dreadful,
  • fearful,
  • fierce,
  • frightful,
  • gloomy,
  • grievous,
  • grim,
  • heartbreaking,
  • horrible,
  • horrid,
  • lamentable,
  • portentous,
  • redoubtable,
  • regrettable,
  • ruinous,
  • scowling,
  • shocking,
  • terrific,
  • ugly,
  • unfortunate,
  • woeful,
  • Oppressing.
  •threatening (adjective)
  • minatory.
  •unspeakable (adjective)
  • unspeakable,
  • indefinable,
  • inexpressible,
  • unutterable,
  • Incommunicable,
  • undescribable.
  •urgent; crucial (adjective)
  • acute,
  • burning,
  • clamant,
  • clamorous,
  • climacteric,
  • critical,
  • crying,
  • desperate,
  • drastic,
  • exigent,
  • extreme,
  • immoderate,
  • imperative,
  • importunate,
  • instant,
  • pressing.

• n.

  •
  • bad,
  • disgraceful,
  • embarrassing,
  • low-grade,
  • pitiful,
  • poor,
  • second-rate.
  •
  • apocalyptic,
  • apocalyptical,
  • baneful,
  • extreme,
  • fateful,
  • grave,
  • hellfire,
  • luck,
  • ominous,
  • profound,
  • rigorous,
  • serious,
  • severe,
  • unlucky,
  • warn.
  •
  • fear,
  • formidable,
  • redoubtable,
  • scary,
  • tremendous.
  •
  • big,
  • burning,
  • crying,
  • emergent,
  • exigent,
  • imperative,
  • instant,
  • pressing,
  • urgent.
  •
  • acute,
  • climacteric,
  • crucial,
  • safety.
  •dire (noun)
  • alarming,
  • awful,
  • critical,
  • desperate,
  • direful,
  • dread,
  • dreaded,
  • dreadful,
  • fearful,
  • fearsome,
  • frightening,
  • horrendous,
  • horrific,
  • terrible.
  •dreadful (noun)
  • urgent.

• v.

  •destroying (verb)
  • destructive.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • apocalyptic,
  • apocalyptical,
  • bastardized,
  • catastrophic,
  • chronic,
  • dearly,
  • draconian,
  • dreadfully,
  • egregious,
  • embarrassing,
  • execrable,
  • fatally,
  • ferocious,
  • fervid,
  • grievous,
  • gross,
  • hellfire,
  • irreparable,
  • keen,
  • keenly,
  • low-grade,
  • pitiful,
  • poor,
  • poorly,
  • rigorous,
  • rotten,
  • scalding,
  • scary,
  • second-rate,
  • severely,
  • shabby,
  • shoddy,
  • stark,
  • subhuman,
  • sublime,
  • terribly,
  • towering,
  • ultimate.
  •
  • bad,
  • badly,
  • baneful,
  • crucial,
  • diabolical,
  • emergent,
  • exigent,
  • fatal,
  • imperative,
  • massive,
  • pressing,
  • profound,
  • redoubtable,
  • rigid,
  • sad,
  • terminal,
  • urgent.
  •
  • crushing,
  • crying,
  • extreme,
  • grave,
  • intense,
  • proper,
  • savage,
  • sore,
  • unlucky,
  • weak.
  •
  • formidable.
  •
  • fateful.
  •
  • burning,
  • strong.
  •catastrophic
  • tragic.
  •crucial
  • acute.
  •foreboding
  • ominous.
  •gloomy
  • somber.
  •injurious
  • harmful.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abhorrent,
  • abject,
  • abominable,
  • abysmally,
  • acute,
  • adverse,
  • adversity,
  • afflictive,
  • amazing,
  • apocalyptic,
  • apocalyptical,
  • appallingly,
  • arise,
  • arrant,
  • astounding,
  • atrocious,
  • atrociously,
  • august,
  • awe-inspiring,
  • awed,
  • awesome,
  • awfully,
  • awfulness,
  • awing,
  • bad,
  • badly,
  • baleful,
  • baneful,
  • base,
  • bastardized,
  • beastly,
  • big,
  • biting,
  • bitter,
  • black,
  • blameworthy,
  • bleak,
  • boding,
  • bruit,
  • brutal,
  • burning,
  • buzz,
  • cadaverous,
  • calamitous,
  • calamity,
  • canard,
  • cataclysmal,
  • cataclysmic,
  • catastrophic,
  • cheerless,
  • chill,
  • chronic,
  • cimmerian,
  • clamant,
  • clamorous,
  • climacteric,
  • cloudy,
  • cold,
  • comfortless,
  • compelling,
  • compulsion,
  • contemptible,
  • cowardly,
  • critical,
  • crucial,
  • cruel,
  • cruelly,
  • crushing,
  • cry,
  • crying,
  • damnable,
  • damned,
  • danger,
  • dangerous,
  • dark,
  • darkening,
  • daunting,
  • deadly,
  • dearly,
  • deathlike,
  • deathly,
  • deeply,
  • deficiency,
  • demand,
  • demoniac,
  • demonic,
  • deplorable,
  • depressed,
  • depressing,
  • depressive,
  • deprivation,
  • desolate,
  • despairing,
  • desperate,
  • desperately,
  • despicable,
  • destitution,
  • destructive,
  • detestable,
  • devastating,
  • devilish,
  • diabolic,
  • diabolical,
  • direful,
  • dirtily,
  • disastrous,
  • disastrously,
  • disconsolate,
  • disgraceful,
  • disgracefully,
  • disgusting,
  • disgustingly,
  • dismal,
  • dismally,
  • dismaying,
  • distress,
  • distressful,
  • distressing,
  • do-or-die,
  • dolorous,
  • draconian,
  • drastic,
  • dread,
  • dreaded,
  • dreadfully,
  • dreadfulness,
  • drear,
  • dreary,
  • eerie,
  • egregious,
  • elegiac,
  • embarrassing,
  • emergent,
  • enormous,
  • enormously,
  • evil,
  • excessively,
  • excruciating,
  • excruciatingly,
  • execrable,
  • exigent,
  • extreme,
  • extremely,
  • fatal,
  • fatally,
  • fate,
  • fateful,
  • fear,
  • fearful,
  • fearfully,
  • fearfulness,
  • fearsome,
  • fell,
  • ferocious,
  • ferociously,
  • fervid,
  • fetid,
  • fierce,
  • fiercely,
  • filthy,
  • flagitious,
  • flagrant,
  • foetid,
  • forbidding,
  • forceful,
  • foreboding,
  • forlorn,
  • formidable,
  • foul,
  • foully,
  • frightening,
  • frighteningly,
  • frightfully,
  • frightfulness,
  • fulsome,
  • funereal,
  • ghastliness,
  • ghostly,
  • ghoulish,
  • gloomy,
  • glum,
  • godforsaken,
  • gory,
  • grand,
  • grave,
  • gravely,
  • gray,
  • great,
  • greatly,
  • grievous,
  • grievously,
  • grim,
  • grimly,
  • grisly,
  • gross,
  • grossly,
  • grotesque,
  • gruesome,
  • gruesomeness,
  • hair-raising,
  • hapless,
  • hardly,
  • hardship,
  • harmful,
  • harrowing,
  • harsh,
  • harshly,
  • hateful,
  • hearsay,
  • heartbreaking,
  • heartrending,
  • heavily,
  • heinous,
  • hellfire,
  • heroic,
  • hideously,
  • horrendous,
  • horribly,
  • horridly,
  • horridness,
  • horrific,
  • horrifying,
  • horror,
  • ignominiously,
  • iii,
  • ill,
  • ill-fated,
  • ill-omened,
  • ill-starred,
  • immoderate,
  • imperative,
  • imperious,
  • importunate,
  • imposing,
  • impossible,
  • inauspicious,
  • indefinable,
  • indigence,
  • inexpressible,
  • infamous,
  • infelicitous,
  • infernal,
  • infernally,
  • iniquitous,
  • inordinate,
  • insistent,
  • instant,
  • intense,
  • intensely,
  • intimidating,
  • irreparable,
  • keen,
  • keenly,
  • lack,
  • lamentable,
  • loathsome,
  • lonely,
  • lonesome,
  • loss,
  • lousy,
  • low-grade,
  • lowering,
  • luck,
  • luckless,
  • lugubrious,
  • lurid,
  • macabre,
  • majestic,
  • malefic,
  • maleficent,
  • malevolent,
  • malicious,
  • malign,
  • malignant,
  • massive,
  • meanly,
  • menacing,
  • mephistophelian,
  • minatory,
  • miserable,
  • misery,
  • monstrous,
  • monstrously,
  • morbid,
  • morose,
  • mortal,
  • murky,
  • nagging,
  • nastily,
  • nasty,
  • necessitous,
  • necessity,
  • nefarious,
  • nightmarish,
  • noble,
  • noisome,
  • notorious,
  • obligation,
  • obnoxious,
  • obnoxiously,
  • odious,
  • offensive,
  • offensively,
  • ominous,
  • outrageous,
  • painful,
  • peccant,
  • penury,
  • perilous,
  • pernicious,
  • petrifying,
  • pitiable,
  • pitiful,
  • plutonian,
  • poor,
  • poorly,
  • portentous,
  • potent,
  • poverty,
  • powerful,
  • pressing,
  • privation,
  • profound,
  • proper,
  • puissant,
  • racking,
  • radical,
  • rank,
  • redoubtable,
  • regrettable,
  • rending,
  • report,
  • reprehensible,
  • repulsively,
  • requirement,
  • Res Ipsa Loquitur,
  • revolting,
  • revoltingly,
  • rigid,
  • rigorous,
  • rotten,
  • ruinous,
  • rumor,
  • sad,
  • sadly,
  • safety,
  • satanic,
  • saturnine,
  • savage,
  • scalding,
  • scandal,
  • scandalous,
  • scandalously,
  • scary,
  • schlock,
  • scowling,
  • scurvy,
  • second-rate,
  • sepulchral,
  • serious,
  • seriously,
  • severe,
  • severely,
  • shabby,
  • shameful,
  • shamefully,
  • shocking,
  • shockingly,
  • shoddy,
  • sickeningly,
  • sinister,
  • solemn,
  • somber,
  • sombre,
  • sordid,
  • sore,
  • spooky,
  • squalid,
  • squally,
  • staggeringly,
  • stark,
  • startling,
  • stately,
  • sternly,
  • strong,
  • subhuman,
  • subjection,
  • sublime,
  • sullen,
  • sunless,
  • table talk,
  • talk,
  • tenebrific,
  • tenebrous,
  • terminal,
  • terribleness,
  • terribly,
  • terrific,
  • terrifically,
  • terrifying,
  • threatening,
  • thrilling,
  • timorous,
  • too bad,
  • towering,
  • tragic,
  • tragical,
  • tragically,
  • tremendous,
  • tremendously,
  • trepid,
  • ugly,
  • ultimate,
  • unbearably,
  • unblessed,
  • unclean,
  • underprivileged,
  • unfavorable,
  • unfavourable,
  • unfortunate,
  • unfortunately,
  • unhappy,
  • unluckily,
  • unlucky,
  • unnerving,
  • unpleasantly,
  • unpleasantness,
  • unpromising,
  • unpropitious,
  • unspeakable,
  • unspeakably,
  • unsuccessfully,
  • untoward,
  • unutterable,
  • urgent,
  • vigorous,
  • vile,
  • vilely,
  • villainous,
  • violent,
  • warn,
  • weak,
  • wicked,
  • wickedly,
  • woeful,
  • woefully,
  • worst,
  • worthless,
  • wretched,
  • wretchedly,
  • Bodeful,
  • Direly,
  • Direness,
  • Doomful,
  • Eavesdropping,
  • Fame,
  • Feared,
  • Fiendish,
  • Fortuneless,
  • Funest,
  • Horribleness,
  • Ill-boding,
  • Incommunicable,
  • Oppressing,
  • Planet-struck,
  • Wreckful,
  • life-threatening,
  • Portending,
  • Star-crossed,
  • calamitously,
  • horrendously,
  • heart-rending,
  • tumbledown,
  • fearsomeness,
  • dreadfuls,
  • necessitation,
  • nauseatingly,
  • ghostlier,
  • horrifically,
  • undescribable,
  • doomy,
  • dreich,
  • spine-chilling,
  • badly off,
  • heart-breaking,
  • heart-sickening,
  • unprosperous,
  • crap,
  • inexorable necessity,
  • of evil portent,
  • out of luck,
  • lacking courage,
  • fire-and-brimstone,
  • direr,
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Antonyms for Dire:

• adj.

  • terrible, ominous
    bright, cheerful, cheering, encouraging, hopeful, joyful, comforting.
  • urgent; crucial
    trivial, unimportant.
  • Other antonyms:
    auspicious, base, beggarly, benign, blithe, blithesome, bright, buoyant, calming, cheerful, cheering, cheery, commonplace, consoling, contemptible, cordial, despicable, encouraging, favorable, festive, friendly, golden, heartening, heartwarming, hopeful, humble, incidental, inferior, inviting, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, lightsome, lowly, lulling, mean, merry, minor, mirthful, negligible, noncritical, noncrucial, optimistic, pacifying, paltry, promising, propitious, prosperous, reassuring, relaxing, safe, soothing, stable, sunshiny, tranquilizing, trivial, unalarming, undignified, unimportant, unthreatening, vulgar, comforting.