Associations to the word «Dire»
Noun
- Sting
- Fare
- Plight
- Elvis
- Brothers
- Scourge
- Strife
- Sou
- Ire
- Un
- Tu
- Fate
- Druid
- Ai
- Nom
- Bias
- Dylan
- Si
- Le
- Les
- Bowie
- Disaster
- Romeo
- Bene
- Keyboardist
- Badger
- Despair
- Floyd
- Pu
- Groan
- Uno
- Enchantment
- Hiss
- Sultan
- Prima
- Fiend
- Thou
- Deluge
- Camel
- Stevie
- Toil
- Remorse
- Anguish
- Fletcher
- Pa
- Lingua
- Apprehension
- Costello
- Hendrix
- Aba
- Deliverance
- Pang
- Misery
- Comment
- Suffering
- Elayne
- Peasantry
- Cutler
- Belinda
- Puma
- Naught
- Wembley
- Della
Adjective
Wiktionary
DIRE, adjective. Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
DIRE, adjective. Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
DIRE, adjective. Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
DIRE, adjective. (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
DIRE STRAIGHTS, noun. Misspelling of dire straits.
DIRE STRAITS, noun. A difficult position
DIRE WOLF, noun. An extinct canine (Canis dirus) from the Pleistocene era
Dictionary definition
DIRE, adjective. Fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency".
DIRE, adjective. Causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse".
Wise words
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control
our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we
are then master of the situation.