Australian English Meaning of dire
dire
Other Australian English words related to dire
- bleak
- menacing
- ominous
- sinister
- baleful
- dark
- darkening
- depressing
- depressive
- desolate
- dire
- foreboding
- grey
- grey
- sick
- ill-boding
- inauspicious
- lonely
- menacing
- murky
- portentous
- sombre
- threatening
- unfavourable
- unfortunate
- Cheerless
- chill, cool
- Cimmerian
- overcast
- cold
- cheerless
- dim
- disconsolate
- disheartening
- disheartening
- dismal
- dismal
- Dreary
- elegiac
- elegiac
- evil
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- gloomy
- God-forsaken
- hopeless
- lonesome
- lugubrious
- malignant
- Malignant
- morbid
- glum
- Plutonian
- Saturnine
- sepulchral
- sombre
- sullen
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- concerned
- unlucky
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- doom-laden
- gloomy
Nearest Words of dire
- dire straits => dire straits
- direct => direct
- direct action => Direct action
- direct antonym => Direct antonym
- direct contrast => Direct contrast
- direct correlation => direct correlation
- direct current => direct current
- direct discourse => Direct speech
- direct dye => Direct dye
- direct electric current => direct current
Definitions and Meaning of dire in English
dire (s)
fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
causing fear or dread or terror
dire (superl.)
Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
FAQs About the word dire
dire
fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless, causing fear or dread or terrorIll-boding; portentous; as, dire omens., Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; ho
bleak,menacing,ominous,sinister,baleful,dark,darkening,depressing,depressive,desolate
benign,bright,favourable,golden,hopeful,promising,Auspicious,encouraging,auspicious,Prosperous
dirca palustris => Leatherwood, diradiation => radiation, dirac => Dirac, dipyridine => Dipyridine, dipyridil => Dipyridyl,
