What is another word for dire?
569 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ dˈa͡ɪ͡ə], [ dˈaɪə], [ d_ˈaɪə]Table of Contents
Similar words for dire:- acute (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- appalling (adjective)
- awful (adjective)
- baleful (adjective)
- bitter (adjective)
- burning (adjective)
- calamitous (adjective)
- climactic/climacteric (adjective)
- critical (adjective)
- crucial (adjective)
- deplorable (adjective)
- desperate (adjective)
- destructive (adjective)
- disappointing (adjective)
- disastrous (adjective)
- dolorous (adjective)
- dread (adjective)
- dreadful (adjective)
- extreme (adjective)
- fearful (adjective)
- frightening (adjective)
- frightful/frightening (adjective)
- grave (adjective)
- grievous (adjective)
- harmful (adjective)
- hellfire (adjective)
- horrendous (adjective)
- ill-boding (adjective)
- inauspicious (adjective)
- incommunicable (adjective)
- indefinable (adjective)
- inexpressible (adjective)
- insistent (adjective)
- instant (adjective)
- lamentable (adjective)
- mortal (adjective)
- nightmarish (adjective)
- ominous (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- painful (adjective)
- pressing (adjective)
- regrettable (adjective)
- requiring (adjective)
- ruinous (adjective)
- sinister (adjective)
- somber (adjective)
- terrible (adjective)
- terrible, ominous (adjective)
- threatening (adjective)
- tragic (adjective)
- undescribable (adjective)
- unlucky (adjective)
- unspeakable (adjective)
- unutterable (adjective)
- urgent; crucial (adjective)
- alarming (noun)
- dire (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- gloomy
Synonyms for Dire:
adj.
•acute (adjective) •all (adjective)- dire.
- 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.
- 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.
- illstarred,
- ill fated,
- ill starred,
- unpropitious,
- un-propitious,
- ill-starred,
- illfated,
- un propitious.
- 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.
- dis quieting,
- portentous,
- most grabber,
- dis-quieting,
- in-conceivable,
- more grabber,
- in conceivable,
- most traumatic,
- more traumatic.
- 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.
- re solute,
- most perseverant,
- re sounding,
- more perseverant,
- re iterative,
- un relenting,
- resounding,
- re-sounding,
- re-iterative,
- re-solute.
- 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.
- more hurting,
- most god-awful,
- god awful,
- most hurting,
- more god awful,
- most god awful,
- more god-awful.
- 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.
- 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.
- ill-omened,
- of great consequence,
- heart-rending,
- pressing,
- disastrous,
- formidable,
- awful,
- climatic,
- unpromising,
- dread,
- Mortiferous,
- dolorous,
- on-the-spot,
- traumatic,
- Perseverant,
- hanging by thread,
- bad break,
- grabber,
- blackhearted,
- very grave,
- painful,
- Dolent,
- bitter,
- on thin ice,
- hard luck,
- touch and go,
- down on luck,
- climactical,
- baleful,
- regrettable,
- premonitory,
- grievous,
- tragic,
- on the spot,
- calamitous,
- harmful,
- Requiring,
- defying description,
- anguished,
- drastic,
- unlucky,
- appalling,
- life and death,
- malificent,
- destructive,
- insistent,
- tough luck,
- Doomful,
- fearful,
- sinister,
- heat-on,
- clamant,
- god-awful,
- illomened,
- acute,
- deplorable,
- peaker,
- Dolorific,
- split-second,
- grody,
- lamentable,
- behind eight ball,
- threatening,
- no nonsense,
- crucial,
- mortal,
- the end,
- hurry-up,
- critical,
- Dolesome,
- out of luck,
- Precursive,
- desperate,
- shuddersome,
- death-dealing,
- grave,
- depressive,
- terrible,
- ominous,
- horrifyin,
- dreadful.
- in-flamed,
- more throbbing,
- un-comfortable,
- most saddening,
- in flamed,
- smarting,
- extremely bad,
- nagging,
- un comfortable,
- more saddening,
- most throbbing.
- 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.
- most depressive,
- most sourpuss,
- more depressive,
- nononsense,
- more dragged,
- most dragged,
- more sourpuss.
- in convenient,
- in-convenient,
- more dreaded,
- unwelcome,
- un-welcome,
- inconvenient,
- most dreaded,
- un welcome.
- cruel,
- grim,
- unfortunate,
- gloomy,
- woeful,
- afflictive,
- scowling,
- dismal,
- distressing,
- terrific,
- shocking,
- depressing,
- black,
- fierce,
- ugly,
- Oppressing,
- cataclysmic.
- over hanging,
- overhanging,
- Lowery,
- comminatory,
- minatory,
- Impendent,
- minacious,
- loury,
- Intimidatory.
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- bad,
- disgraceful.
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- fear,
- tremendous.
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- climacteric,
- safety.
Other synonyms:
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- 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.
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- fatal,
- exigent,
- emergent,
- massive,
- explosive,
- baneful,
- badly,
- diabolical,
- redoubtable,
- sharply,
- sad,
- spectacular,
- supreme,
- unbearable,
- rigid,
- urgent,
- far,
- profound,
- merciless,
- Searing,
- terminal,
- imperative.
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- proper,
- high-level,
- savage,
- crying,
- intense,
- weak,
- crushing,
- third class,
- sore,
- stiff.
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- full.
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- heavy.
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- strong.
Paraphrases for Dire:
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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.
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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.
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Antonyms for Dire:
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adj.
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terrible, ominous
happy, light, wonderful, pleasant, encouraging, blessed, bright, beautiful, sunny, hopeful, pleasing.
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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.
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terrible, ominous
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.