Words and phrases that have a meaning related to dire: (125 results)
Often used in the same context:
bleak, grim, precarious, gloomy, dire straits, parlous, perilous, sobering, dismal, urgent, desperate, rosy, ominous, stark, dreadful, worse, pessimistic, straitened, hopeless, troubling, desperate straits, worrisome, appalling, alarming, drastic, depressing, calamitous, pitiful, deplorable, terrible, pitiable, untenable, harsh, tenuous, abysmal, horrendous, daunting, severe, serious, glum, apocalyptic, disastrous, wretched, graver, dicey, woeful, frightening, nightmarish, miserable, lamentable, unsettling, brighter, dour, pathetic, catastrophic, devastating, uncertain, dispiriting, dreary, beleaguered, distressing, anemic, disconcerting, damning, despondent, sanguine, atrocious, disheartening, inescapable, horrible, unpalatable, fragile, poor, horrifying, prescient, prophetic, overpopulated, shocking, unpropitious, forlorn, horrid, unenviable, faltering, unpromising, awful, chilling, hellish, murky, dramatic, horrific, startling, scary, paradoxical, shakier, pollyannaish, unsustainable, woebegone, downbeat, uglier, economic, peculiar, intractable, direst, direful, unforeseen, unforseen, unforeseeable, foreseeable, unavoidable, inevitable, fearful, frustrating, grievous, untoward
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Also try:black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful, hell to pay, marked
— Nouns for dire: consequences, need, straits, necessity, poverty, predictions, circumstances, warnings, results, situation, distress, more...
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