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