Australian English Meaning of direness
dire need
Other Australian English words related to dire need
- 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 direness
Definitions and Meaning of direness in English
direness (n.)
Terribleness; horror; woefulness.
FAQs About the word direness
dire need
Terribleness; horror; woefulness.
bleak,menacing,ominous,sinister,baleful,dark,darkening,depressing,depressive,desolate
benign,bright,favourable,golden,hopeful,promising,Auspicious,encouraging,auspicious,Prosperous
diremption => rescission, dirempt => annul, direly => direly, direfully => direly, direful => dire,
