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