dire
adjective
1. fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
- a dire emergency
Similar word(s): critical, desperate
2. causing fear or dread or terror
- dire news
- a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked
Similar word(s): alarming, awful, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
Sentences with dire as an adjective:
- dire omens
- dire need
- dire consequences; to be in dire straits