Dire

Adjective

 * 1) Ill-boding; portentous.
 * dire omens
 * 1) Dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
 * dire consequences
 * 1) Urgent, pressing.
 * dire need

Derived terms

 * direful
 * direly


 * direness
 * dire sisters


 * dire straits
 * dire wolf

Thesaurus
abominable, apocalyptic, appalling, arrant, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, black, blameworthy, bodeful, boding, brutal, burning, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, clamant, clamorous, climacteric, contemptible, critical, crucial, crying, dark, deplorable, depressed, depressing, desperate, despicable, destructive, detestable, direful, disastrous, disgusting, distressing, donsie, doomful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, dreary, egregious, enormous, evil, evil-starred, exigent, fatal, fateful, fell, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foreboding, formidable, fortuneless, foul, frightful, fulsome, funest, ghastly, ghoulish, gloomy, grievous, grim, grisly, gross, gruesome, hapless, hateful, heartbreaking, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, ill, ill off, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, imperative, importunate, in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, infamous, instant, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, lowering, luckless, macabre, menacing, monstrous, morbid, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, of evil portent, offensive, ominous, out of luck, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, planet-struck, portending, portentous, rank, redoubtable, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, ruinous, sad, scandalous, schlock, schrecklich, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, short of luck, sinister, somber, sordid, squalid, star-crossed, terrible, terrific, threatening, too bad, tragic, tremendous, unblessed, unclean, underprivileged, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, unprosperous, unprovidential, unspeakable, untoward, urgent, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wreckful, wretched

Etymology
From dirus:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: зловещ
 * Danish: ildevarslende
 * Dutch:, omineus
 * Finnish:, ,


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: de mal agüero,


 * Bulgarian: страшен, ужасен
 * Danish: ondskabsfuld, skrækkelig
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,
 * German: boshaft.


 * Italian: terribile
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: Maligno

Anagrams

 * ired
 * Reid
 * ride

Etymology
From dico:.

Verb

 * 1) to say, to tell

Derived terms

 * maudire
 * médire
 * vouloir dire
 * dis donc

Anagrams

 * ride, ridé

Etymology
From dicere:, present active infinitive of dico:.

Verb
or


 * 1) To say, to tell
 * 2) To recite
 * 3) To mean
 * 4) To think
 * 5) To admit

Related terms

 * a detta di
 * a dir poco
 * benedire
 * detto
 * dicesi
 * dirsi
 * dizione
 * modo di dire
 * ridire
 * vale a dire
 * voler dire

Anagrams

 * ride

Alternative forms

 * díser
 * díder

Etymology
From dico:.

Verb

 * 1) to say (express using language)
 * 2) to mean; to signify

Etymology
From dico:.

Verb

 * 1)  to say
 * 2)  to recount a story

Descendants

 * French:

Etymology
From dico:.

Verb

 * 1) to say