Synonyms for Dire:

• adj.

  •acute (adjective)
  • more acute,
  • more serious.
  •all (adjective)
  • dire.
  •appalling (adjective)
  • grodiest,
  • dis-maying,
  • dis-heartening,
  • more disheartening,
  • endest,
  • dis heartening,
  • Ender,
  • dis maying,
  • more scaring,
  • most disheartening,
  • most daunting,
  • most dismaying,
  • most petrifying,
  • most unnerving,
  • more unnerving,
  • un nerving,
  • grodier,
  • more petrifying,
  • more dismaying,
  • un-nerving,
  • most scaring,
  • more daunting.
  •awful (adjective)
  • horrible,
  • repulsive,
  • frightful,
  • unpleasant,
  • ghastly,
  • horrid,
  • hideous.
  •baleful (adjective)
  • venomous,
  • more foreboding,
  • fore boding,
  • most foreboding,
  • fore-boding,
  • more evil.
  •bitter (adjective)
  • dis-tasteful,
  • galling,
  • in tense,
  • dis agreeable,
  • in-tense,
  • un-palatable,
  • dis-pleasing,
  • in temperate,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • in clement,
  • dis tasteful,
  • in-temperate,
  • un palatable,
  • in-tensest,
  • dis pleasing,
  • in-tenser,
  • in-clement,
  • in tenser.
  •burning (adjective)
  • importunate.
  •calamitous (adjective)
  • more blighting,
  • un-favorable,
  • most blighting,
  • un-fortunate,
  • un favorable,
  • un fortunate.
  •climactic/climacteric (adjective)
  • peakest,
  • para mount,
  • para-mount,
  • more climactical,
  • most climactical.
  •critical (adjective)
  • high-priority,
  • all-important,
  • Exceptive,
  • pivotal,
  • risky.
  •crucial (adjective)
  • more climatic,
  • most showdown,
  • more necessary,
  • touch go,
  • more showdown,
  • most climatic.
  •deplorable (adjective)
  • opprobrious,
  • wretched,
  • godawful,
  • scandalous.
  •desperate (adjective)
  • vehement.
  •destructive (adjective)
  • feller,
  • Wrackful,
  • Lethiferous,
  • Wreckful,
  • Eradicative,
  • Extirpative.
  •disappointing (adjective)
  • heartbreaking.
  •disastrous (adjective)
  • illstarred,
  • ill fated,
  • ill starred,
  • unpropitious,
  • un-propitious,
  • ill-starred,
  • illfated,
  • un propitious.
  •dolorous (adjective)
  • most heart rending,
  • heart rending,
  • most dolesome,
  • doleful,
  • most dolorific,
  • more dolent,
  • more heart rending,
  • most heart-rending,
  • ruthful,
  • most dolent,
  • more heart-rending,
  • more dolesome,
  • more dolorific.
  •dread (adjective)
  • awe inspiring,
  • more shuddersome,
  • most shuddersome,
  • aweinspiring.
  •dreadful (adjective)
  • beastlier,
  • beastliest.
  •extreme (adjective)
  • out and out,
  • out of proportion,
  • extra ordinary,
  • stern,
  • overkill.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • grisly.
  •frightening (adjective)
  • nightmarish.
  •frightful/frightening (adjective)
  • dis quieting,
  • portentous,
  • most grabber,
  • dis-quieting,
  • in-conceivable,
  • more grabber,
  • in conceivable,
  • most traumatic,
  • more traumatic.
  •grave (adjective)
  • killing,
  • most killing,
  • more killing.
  •grievous (adjective)
  • more afflicting,
  • up setting,
  • more wounding,
  • up-setting,
  • most afflicting,
  • most wounding.
  •harmful (adjective)
  • mischievous,
  • Harassing,
  • malefic,
  • murderous.
  •hellfire (adjective)
  • fire-and-brimstone.
  •horrendous (adjective)
  • more horrifyin,
  • most horrifyin.
  •ill-boding (adjective)
  • Ill-boding,
  • illboding,
  • ill boding.
  •inauspicious (adjective)
  • more ill-omened,
  • in-auspicious,
  • in opportune,
  • more unpromising,
  • in-opportune,
  • ill omened,
  • inauspicious,
  • in auspicious,
  • most illomened,
  • un timelier,
  • un promising,
  • un timeliest,
  • un timely,
  • un-timelier,
  • most unpromising,
  • un-timeliest,
  • more ill omened,
  • most ill-omened,
  • most ill omened,
  • un-timely,
  • un-promising,
  • more illomened.
  •incommunicable (adjective)
  • in communicable,
  • more description,
  • most description,
  • in-communicable.
  •indefinable (adjective)
  • in definable,
  • in-definable.
  •inexpressible (adjective)
  • in expressible,
  • in-expressible.
  •insistent (adjective)
  • re solute,
  • most perseverant,
  • re sounding,
  • more perseverant,
  • re iterative,
  • un relenting,
  • resounding,
  • re-sounding,
  • re-iterative,
  • re-solute.
  •instant (adjective)
  • more split second,
  • most on the spot,
  • more on the spot,
  • instantaneous,
  • present day,
  • most split-second,
  • most splitsecond,
  • pre sent,
  • more on-the-spot,
  • most split second,
  • presentday,
  • splitsecond,
  • pre-sent,
  • more split-second,
  • most on-the-spot,
  • more splitsecond.
  •lamentable (adjective)
  • more hurting,
  • most god-awful,
  • god awful,
  • most hurting,
  • more god awful,
  • most god awful,
  • more god-awful.
  •mortal (adjective)
  • more deathdealing,
  • most deathdealing,
  • most death dealing,
  • most death-dealing,
  • most mortiferous,
  • more pestilent,
  • deathdealing,
  • most ending,
  • more death-dealing,
  • more death dealing,
  • more ending,
  • more mortiferous,
  • remorseless,
  • death dealing.
  •nightmarish (adjective)
  • scarier.
  •ominous (adjective)
  • most doomful,
  • more premonitory,
  • un-friendliest,
  • un-friendlier,
  • pre-monitory,
  • in hospitable,
  • most malificent,
  • in-hospitable,
  • more doomful,
  • most presaging,
  • more presaging,
  • pre monitory,
  • more precursive,
  • un-friendly,
  • most precursive,
  • pre cursive,
  • un friendliest,
  • more malificent,
  • un friendlier,
  • pre-cursive,
  • most premonitory.
  •painful (adjective)
  • in-flamed,
  • more throbbing,
  • un-comfortable,
  • most saddening,
  • in flamed,
  • smarting,
  • extremely bad,
  • nagging,
  • un comfortable,
  • more saddening,
  • most throbbing.
  •pressing (adjective)
  • most hurryup,
  • more heaton,
  • heat on,
  • more constraining,
  • more hurry-up,
  • most heat-on,
  • most claiming,
  • most forcing,
  • more heat-on,
  • hurry up,
  • more hurry up,
  • most heat on,
  • more heat on,
  • ex-acting,
  • hurryup,
  • most hurry-up,
  • heaton,
  • ex acting,
  • more hurryup,
  • most heaton,
  • most constraining,
  • most hurry up,
  • more claiming,
  • more forcing.
  •regrettable (adjective)
  • un happier,
  • un happy,
  • dis appointing,
  • un-happy,
  • dis-appointing,
  • un happiest,
  • illadvised.
  •requiring (adjective)
  • more involving,
  • re quiring,
  • more necessitating,
  • re-quiring,
  • most involving,
  • most necessitating.
  •ruinous (adjective)
  • ruinous,
  • tumbledown.
  •sinister (adjective)
  • dis honest,
  • more blackhearted,
  • most blackhearted,
  • dis-honest.
  •somber (adjective)
  • most depressive,
  • most sourpuss,
  • more depressive,
  • nononsense,
  • more dragged,
  • most dragged,
  • more sourpuss.
  •terrible (adjective)
  • in convenient,
  • in-convenient,
  • more dreaded,
  • unwelcome,
  • un-welcome,
  • inconvenient,
  • most dreaded,
  • un welcome.
  •terrible, ominous (adjective)
  • cruel,
  • grim,
  • unfortunate,
  • gloomy,
  • woeful,
  • afflictive,
  • scowling,
  • dismal,
  • distressing,
  • terrific,
  • shocking,
  • depressing,
  • black,
  • fierce,
  • ugly,
  • Oppressing,
  • cataclysmic.
  •threatening (adjective)
  • over hanging,
  • overhanging,
  • Lowery,
  • comminatory,
  • minatory,
  • Impendent,
  • minacious,
  • loury,
  • Intimidatory.
  •tragic (adjective)
  • de solate,
  • most anguished,
  • de-solate,
  • most crushing,
  • more anguished,
  • more crushing.
  •undescribable (adjective)
  • un describable,
  • un-describable.
  •unlucky (adjective)
  • un-lucky,
  • out luck,
  • un-luckier,
  • Star-crossed,
  • un-luckiest,
  • star crossed,
  • un luckiest,
  • un-successful,
  • down luck,
  • un successful,
  • un lucky,
  • starcrossed,
  • un luckier.
  •unspeakable (adjective)
  • unutterable,
  • undescribable,
  • unspeakable,
  • beyond words,
  • indefinable,
  • Incommunicable,
  • inexpressible.
  •unutterable (adjective)
  • un utterable,
  • un-utterable.
  •urgent; crucial (adjective)
  • clamorous,
  • immoderate.

• n.

  •
  • bad,
  • disgraceful.
  •
  • extreme,
  • severe,
  • fateful,
  • warn,
  • luck,
  • serious.
  •
  • fear,
  • tremendous.
  •
  • big,
  • instant,
  • burning.
  •
  • climacteric,
  • safety.
  •alarming (noun)
  • alarming.
  •dire (noun)
  • direful,
  • horrendous,
  • dreaded,
  • horrific,
  • fearsome,
  • frightening.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • damning,
  • crummy,
  • dodgy,
  • towering,
  • rotten,
  • severely,
  • keen,
  • abysmal,
  • low-grade,
  • keenly,
  • ferocious,
  • embarrassing,
  • puny,
  • frontal,
  • apocalyptical,
  • chronic,
  • pitiful,
  • apocalyptic,
  • shoddy,
  • dreadfully,
  • stark,
  • dearly,
  • sublime,
  • hellfire,
  • execrable,
  • subhuman,
  • poor,
  • fervid,
  • egregious,
  • irremediable,
  • extravagant,
  • poorly,
  • draconian,
  • scalding,
  • scary,
  • low-class,
  • fatally,
  • fire and brimstone,
  • irreparable,
  • bastardized,
  • gross,
  • heavy-duty,
  • terribly,
  • second-rate,
  • ultimate,
  • rigorous,
  • shabby,
  • catastrophic,
  • third-rate,
  • deficient.
  •
  • fatal,
  • exigent,
  • emergent,
  • massive,
  • explosive,
  • baneful,
  • badly,
  • diabolical,
  • redoubtable,
  • sharply,
  • sad,
  • spectacular,
  • supreme,
  • unbearable,
  • rigid,
  • urgent,
  • far,
  • profound,
  • merciless,
  • Searing,
  • terminal,
  • imperative.
  •
  • proper,
  • high-level,
  • savage,
  • crying,
  • intense,
  • weak,
  • crushing,
  • third class,
  • sore,
  • stiff.
  •
  • full.
  •
  • heavy.
  •
  • strong.
  •gloomy
  • somber.

Paraphrases for Dire:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    terrible, desperate, dreadful, extreme.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    difficult, frightening, grave, gravest, painful, despairing, alarming, formidable, critical, sinister, hopeless, sombre, nefarious, pernicious, bleak, harsh, heinous, deteriorating, frightful, distressed, hideous, challenging, egregious, disadvantageous, baleful, unfortunate, bad, sad, agonizing, acute, fatal, horrid, compelling, fateful, disturbing, lamentable, shocking, inclement, ominous, overwhelming, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, pitiful, terrific, tough, fearsome, imperative, regrettable, destructive, abysmal, depressing, arduous, damaging, distraught, dark, enormous, ruinous, unfavourable, ill-fated, Deteriorated, crippling, negative, abominable, burdensome, ghastly, fragile, staggering, troubling, embarrassing, dreaded, tiresome, onerous, troublesome, awkward, degraded, relentless, abhorrent, life-threatening, absolute, disagreeable, cruel, insecure, astonishing, hard, pathetic, traumatic, eerie, stark, worrisome, dim, disgraceful, major, woeful, acrimonious, dangerous, problematic, glaring, evil.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    disastrous, severe, serious, appalling, horrendous, catastrophic, distressing, horrible, calamitous, horrific, devastating, precarious, horrifying, grim, tragic, terrifying, dramatic, deplorable, pressing, miserable, urgent, dismal, gruesome, awful, harrowing, wretched, atrocious, grievous, bitter, adverse, tremendous, gloomy, daunting, abject, drastic, great, deadly, poor, cumbersome.

Antonyms for Dire:

• adj.

  • terrible, ominous
    happy, light, wonderful, pleasant, encouraging, blessed, bright, beautiful, sunny, hopeful, pleasing.
  • urgent; crucial
    calm, mild, fortunate, nice, good, lucky.
  • Other antonyms:
    humble, cheery, heartwarming, soothing, inviting, lighthearted, stable, joyous, merry, mirthful, joyful, lightsome, beggarly, jolly, optimistic, lowly, jocund, tranquilizing, friendly, base, unalarming, festive, noncrucial, safe, auspicious, negligible, lulling, mean, cordial, inferior, cheering, relaxing, reassuring, unthreatening, trivial, benign, prosperous, unimportant, calming, blithe, consoling, undignified, contemptible, blithesome, pacifying, minor, incidental, sunshiny, commonplace, paltry, despicable, cheerful, vulgar, buoyant, comforting.

Homophones for Dire:

• dior, dry, diary, death adder, dearie, dyer, dari, deere, death row, drear, Dieter, drier, dourah, duty tour, doer, didder, dray, detour, dead air, datura, dodderer, Dr., drawer, dower, durio, dour, dowery, dare, dory, drawee, deer, derriere, draw, deodar, doorway, deter, door, durer, dear, deary, dairy, dewar, drew, Diarrhea, dreary, dura, drey, dowry, dietary, doura, diarrhoea, dither, dyar, dodder, doddery, darrow, dryer, draw away, durra.