direly Antonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- dark
- unfavorable
- ill-boding
- direful
- ill
- foreboding
- murky
- somber
- depressing
- gray
- lonely
- baleful
- threatening
- minatory
- depressive
- darkening
- desolate
- inauspicious
- grey
- unfortunate
- portentous
- black
Weak:
- dismal
- chill
- morbid
- tenebrific
- cloudy
- glum
- disheartening
- disconsolate
- dreary
- cheerless
- tenebrous
- evil
- dreich
- unpromising
- doomy
- malignant
- funereal
- troubled
- elegiac
- comfortless
- plutonian
- wretched
- unlucky
- sombre
- unpropitious
- godforsaken
- hopeless
- sullen
- morose
- discouraging
- sepulchral
- saturnine
- lonesome
- cimmerian
- forlorn
- malign
- dim
- cold
- gloomy
- lugubrious
- drear
- miserable
- elegiacal
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.
menacing, bleak,ominous, sinister, dark, unfavorable, ill-boding, direful, ill, foreboding
favorable, hopeful, benign, bright, promising, golden, bright, hopeful, favorable, benign
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.
