direly Antonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- baleful
- direful
- ill-boding
- ill
- depressive
- minatory
- unfortunate
- darkening
- threatening
- gray
- black
- somber
- desolate
- unfavorable
- grey
- dark
- foreboding
- murky
- lonely
- portentous
- depressing
- inauspicious
Weak:
- forlorn
- unlucky
- sepulchral
- cold
- glum
- disheartening
- tenebrific
- morose
- miserable
- gloomy
- lonesome
- saturnine
- hopeless
- chill
- morbid
- sombre
- godforsaken
- dreich
- troubled
- tenebrous
- elegiacal
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- doomy
- funereal
- drear
- dismal
- unpromising
- comfortless
- lugubrious
- cloudy
- unpropitious
- cheerless
- dim
- cimmerian
- evil
- dreary
- malignant
- wretched
- plutonian
- sullen
- elegiac
- malign
Meaning of direly
Webster
direly (adv.)
In a dire manner.
direly Sentence Examples
- The patient direly needed a blood transfusion to survive.
- The company's direly needed new product launch was a huge success.
- The city's direly needed new hospital was finally completed.
- The team's direly needed victory gave them a boost of confidence.
- The student's direly needed scholarship allowed her to continue her education.
- The family's direly needed financial assistance came just in time.
- The organization's direly needed donation drive was a resounding success.
- The country's direly needed peace treaty brought an end to the long-running conflict.
- The direly needed rain finally came, bringing relief to the drought-stricken region.
- The project's direly needed funding was secured, allowing it to move forward.
FAQs About the word direly
In a dire manner.
bleak,ominous, sinister, menacing, baleful, direful, ill-boding, ill, depressive, minatory
benign,favorable, golden, hopeful, promising, bright, benign, hopeful, golden, bright
The patient direly needed a blood transfusion to survive.
The company's direly needed new product launch was a huge success.
The city's direly needed new hospital was finally completed.
The team's direly needed victory gave them a boost of confidence.
