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