dire

dire  (dr)

adj. dir·er, dir·est

1. Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous: a dire economic forecast; dire threats.

2. Urgent; desperate: in dire need; dire poverty.

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[Latin drus, fearsome, terrible; akin to Greek deinos.]

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direly adv.

direness n.

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dire [daɪə]

adj (usually prenominal)

1. Also direful disastrous; fearful

2. desperate; urgent a dire need

3. foreboding disaster; ominous a dire warning

[from Latin dīrus ominous, fearful; related to Greek deos fear]

direly  adv

direness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	dire - 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" desperate critical - being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency; "a critical shortage of food"; "a critical illness"; "an illness at the critical stage"
	2.	dire - 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" direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible, awful, horrific, fearful alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger

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dire

adjective

1. desperate, pressing, crying, critical, terrible, crucial, alarming, extreme, awful, appalling, urgent, cruel, horrible, disastrous, grim, dreadful, gloomy, fearful, dismal, drastic, catastrophic, ominous, horrid, woeful, ruinous, calamitous, cataclysmic, portentous, godawful (slang), exigent, bodeful the dire predicament of the refugees

2. terrible, awful, appalling, dreadful, abysmal, frightful, godawful (slang) a book of verse which ranged from the barely tolerable to the utterly dire

Translations

dire [daɪəʳ] ADJ (direr (superl))

1. (= terrible) [event, consequences, results] → nefasto, funesto; [situation] → desesperado; [warning, prediction] → alarmante; [poverty] → extremo
to be in dire need of sth → necesitar algo desesperadamente
to be in dire straits → estar en un serio aprieto or apuro

2. (= awful) [film, book] → pésimo, malísimo

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dire [ˈdaɪə^r] adj

(= disastrous) [consequences] → terrible, désastreux/euse

(= extreme) [poverty] → extrême
to be in dire need of sth → avoir un besoin urgent de qch
to be in dire straits (financially) → être dans une situation désespérée

(pejorative) (= awful) → affreux/euse

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dire

adj

(= serious) consequences → verheerend; warning, prediction, threat → unheilvoll; effects → katastrophal; situation → miserabel; (= desperate) → verzweifelt; the dire state of the property market → die miserable Lage auf dem Immobilienmarkt; in dire poverty → in äußerster Armut; to do something out of dire necessity → etw aus dringender Notwendigkeit tun; to be in dire need of something → etw dringend brauchen; to be in dire straits → in einer ernsten Notlage sein; the economy is in dire straits → die Wirtschaftslage ist katastrophal

(inf: = awful) → mies (inf); the standard is pretty dire → das Niveau ist unter aller Kritik (inf)

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dire [ˈdaɪəʳ] adj (warning) → minaccioso/a; (consequences) → disastroso/a; (event) → terribile; (poverty) → nero/a
dire necessity → dura necessità
in dire straits → nei guai

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dire [ˈdaɪəʳ] adj (warning) → minaccioso/a; (consequences) → disastroso/a; (event) → terribile; (poverty) → nero/a
dire necessity → dura necessità
in dire straits → nei guai

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dire

adj dire [ˈdaiə]

dreadful; perilous. vreeslike رَهيب، مُفْزِع، مُنْذِر بِكارِثَه ужасен hrozný skrækkelig; forfærdelig; risikabel gräßlich φοβερός, επικίνδυνος terrible, espantoso, atroz kohutav وحشتناک؛ سهمگین kauhea terrible נוֹרָא, אָיוֹם भयानक, खतरनाक strašan, poguban szörnyű berbahaya hræðilegur, ógnþrunginn tremendo 恐ろしい 무시무시한 baisus drausmīgs; šausmīgs hebat vreselijk forferdelig; i dyp nød straszny perigoso groaz­nic, cumplit ужасный strašný, nebezpečný strašen porazan gräslig, förfärlig, hemsk เลวร้ายมาก korkunç, müthiş 可怕的 жахливий, страшний المناک thảm khốc 可怕的