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direadjective being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to comea dire forecast of a plunge in stock prices baleful, direful, doomy, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dim, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich(chiefly Scottish), elegiac(also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray(also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, somber(or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretcheddiscouraging, disheartening, hopeless, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitiousill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, troubled, unfortunate, unluckyevil, malign, malignant unthreatening auspicious, benign, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious, prosperous causing feara series of dire tremors that hinted at a huge volcanic eruption alarming, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, shocking, spine-chilling, terrible, terrifying daunting, demoralizing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, startling, threatening, troubling, trying, unnervingbone-chilling, creepy, eerie(also eery), weirdappalling, atrocious, awful, grisly, gruesome(also grewsome), hideous, horrid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish calming, comforting, consoling, inviting, lulling, pacifying, quieting, reassuring, relaxing, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)nonintimidating, nonthreatening needing immediate attentiona dire need for food and medicine in the famine-stricken country acute, burning, clamant, compelling, critical, crying, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, instant, necessitous, pressing, urgent demanding, extreme, immediate, insistent, intense, overridingcrucial, desperate, grave, life-and-death(also life-or-death), serious, severe, vitaldangerous, explosive, hazardous, perilous, precarious, unstable noncritical, nonurgent incidental, low-pressure, minor, negligible, trivial, unimportantnonthreatening, safe, stable causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheerwith stock prices steadily falling, these are dire days on the trading floor black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich(chiefly Scottish), elegiac(also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray(also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber(or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woefuldim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsettingdesperate, hopeless, pessimisticlamentable, mournful, plaintive, sorrowfulcolorless, drab, dulldour, grim, lowering(also louring), lowery(also loury), menacing, negative, oppressive, threatening bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, cordial, festive, friendly, gay, heartwarming, sunshiny blithe, blithesome, buoyant, gay, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, mirthfulencouraging, hopeful, optimisticlighthearted, lightsome in 1565 |