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