Associations to the word «Dire»
Noun
- Strait
- Juror
- Che
- Je
- Calamity
- Qu
- Need
- Adieu
- Peril
- Emergency
- Que
- Tout
- Consequence
- Warning
- Prediction
- Nous
- Lei
- Predicament
- Sans
- Ce
- Clapton
- Necessity
- Saber
- Extremity
- Jeopardy
- Mai
- Une
- Situation
- Distress
- Ne
- Hydra
- Una
- Nel
- Vengeance
- Swing
- Te
- Va
- Alla
- Perplexity
- Wolf
- Misfortune
- Poverty
- Ethiopia
- Dread
- Io
- Alchemy
- Elton
- Famine
- Omen
- Woe
- Threat
- Circumstance
- Rom
- Homme
- Frontman
- Vertigo
- Catastrophe
- Menace
- Mccartney
- Elle
- Shortage
- Se
- Misgiving
- Prophecy
- Disgrace
- Questionnaire
- Prognosis
- Punishment
- Torment
- Jury
- Sai
- Porta
- Foe
- Wrath
- Amour
- Weasel
- Zeppelin
- Ci
- Juliet
- Bison
- Di
- Confusion
- Fleetwood
- Delle
- Encore
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".
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