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