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