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.
direly Meaning
Webster
direly (adv.)
In a dire manner.
Synonyms & Antonyms of direly
Synonyms:
- drear
- godforsaken
- saturnine
- unpropitious
- elegiacal
- glum
- dim
- lugubrious
- disheartening
- dismal
- morose
- cold
- miserable
- funereal
- comfortless
- dreary
- sombre
- unlucky
- dreich
- cloudy
- sepulchral
- disconsolate
- hopeless
- elegiac
- malignant
- wretched
- doomy
- morbid
- evil
- sullen
- forlorn
- cimmerian
- lonesome
- cheerless
- malign
- plutonian
- unpromising
- tenebrous
- discouraging
- tenebrific
- chill
- gloomy
- troubled
Antonyms:
FAQs About the word direly
In a dire manner.
bleak,ominous, menacing, sinister, unfavorable, ill-boding, desolate, unfortunate, dark, murky
favorable, golden, promising, benign, bright, promising, hopeful,favorable, benign, golden
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.