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