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