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