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