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