direness Synonyms
Strongest:
Strong:
- foreboding
- dark
- grey
- unfavorable
- baleful
- lonely
- darkening
- murky
- threatening
- unfortunate
- minatory
- depressive
- desolate
- ill
- inauspicious
- portentous
- somber
- ill-boding
- gray
- depressing
- direful
- black
Weak:
- tenebrific
- lugubrious
- unpromising
- glum
- sepulchral
- cold
- morbid
- saturnine
- unlucky
- disconsolate
- comfortless
- doomy
- funereal
- dreich
- dreary
- cimmerian
- troubled
- malignant
- plutonian
- chill
- disheartening
- godforsaken
- dim
- lonesome
- discouraging
- wretched
- unpropitious
- tenebrous
- hopeless
- elegiacal
- elegiac
- evil
- miserable
- sombre
- malign
- cloudy
- gloomy
- dismal
- drear
- sullen
- morose
- forlorn
- cheerless
direness Meaning
Webster
direness (n.)
Terribleness; horror; woefulness.
direness Sentence Examples
- The direness of the situation demanded immediate action.
- The doctor was concerned about the direness of the patient's condition.
- The direness of the financial situation forced the company to file for bankruptcy.
- The direness of the global pandemic required governments to take swift and decisive action.
- The direness of the environmental crisis should be a wake-up call for humanity.
- The direness of the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn country prompted a massive international relief effort.
- The direness of the poverty level in some parts of the world is a stark reminder of the need for global solidarity.
- The direness of the drought conditions forced farmers to abandon their crops.
- The direness of the national security threat prompted the government to increase its defense spending.
- The direness of the current political climate is a cause for concern for many citizens.
FAQs About the word direness
Terribleness; horror; woefulness.
bleak,ominous, sinister, menacing, foreboding, dark, grey, unfavorable, baleful, lonely
hopeful, hopeful, promising, favorable, benign, promising, bright, bright,favorable, benign
The direness of the situation demanded immediate action.
The doctor was concerned about the direness of the patient's condition.
The direness of the financial situation forced the company to file for bankruptcy.
The direness of the global pandemic required governments to take swift and decisive action.
