Dire

adjective
daɪər

Adjective

  • causing fear or dread or terror

    “dire news”

    “a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked”

    Similar:AwfulDirefulDreadDreadedDreadful

  • fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless

    “a dire emergency”

    Similar:Desperate

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