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