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