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