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