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Dire \Dire\ (d[imac]r), a. [Compar. Direr (d[imac]r"[~e]r);
superl. Direst.] [L. dirus; of uncertain origin.]

1. Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
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2. Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible;
terrible; lamentable.
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Dire was the tossing, deep the groans. --Milton.
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Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire. --Milton.
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dire
adj 1: fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a
desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a
desperate situation due to lack of materiel"-
G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency" [syn: desperate,
dire]

2: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful
risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that
London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster";
"polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a
dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions
shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire,
direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful,
fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific,
terrible]
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dire [direkt]
grässlich

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dire

borzalmas
borzasztó
fatális
ijesztô
irtózatos
iszonyatos
iszonyú
rettenetes
szörnyû
végzetes


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dire [dir]
erwähnen; sagen

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dire [dir]
say; tell

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dire [dir]
opgeven; zeggen

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dire
erwähnen; sagen

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dire

entsetzlich; furchtbar adj
dire

grässlich; unheilvoll adj
dire

verheerend; katastrophal; miserabel; verzweifelt; mies adj
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173 Moby Thesaurus words for "dire":
abominable, apocalyptic, appalling, arrant, astounding, atrocious,
awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful,
base, beastly, beneath contempt, black, blameworthy, bodeful,
boding, brutal, burning, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic,
catastrophic, clamant, clamorous, climacteric, contemptible,
critical, crucial, crying, dark, deplorable, depressed, depressing,
desperate, despicable, destructive, detestable, direful,
disastrous, disgusting, distressing, donsie, doomful, dread,
dreaded, dreadful, dreary, egregious, enormous, evil, evil-starred,
exigent, fatal, fateful, fell, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foreboding,
formidable, fortuneless, foul, frightful, fulsome, funest, ghastly,
ghoulish, gloomy, grievous, grim, grisly, gross, gruesome, hapless,
hateful, heartbreaking, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible,
horrid, horrific, horrifying, ill, ill off, ill-boding, ill-fated,
ill-omened, ill-starred, imperative, importunate,
in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, infamous, instant,
lamentable, loathsome, lousy, lowering, luckless, macabre,
menacing, monstrous, morbid, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious,
obnoxious, odious, of evil portent, offensive, ominous,
out of luck, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, planet-struck,
portending, portentous, rank, redoubtable, regrettable,
reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, ruinous, sad, scandalous,
schlock, schrecklich, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy,
short of luck, sinister, somber, sordid, squalid, star-crossed,
terrible, terrific, threatening, too bad, tragic, tremendous,
unblessed, unclean, underprivileged, unfavorable, unfortunate,
unhappy, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, unprosperous,
unprovidential, unspeakable, untoward, urgent, vile, villainous,
woeful, worst, worthless, wreckful, wretched



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