dire
Meaning of dire
adjective
- Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
dire omens
- Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
dire need
- Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal
dire consequences; to be in dire straits
- Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
Information about dire
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of dire
dire
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- dire is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
dire synonyms
Meaning desperate:
Meaning awful:
awful, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
Meaning :
Translation of dire
- Spanish: desesperado
- German: fatal, schlimm
- Italian: disperato, fatale
Anagrams of dire
dier, drie, Ider, ired, Reid, Ride, ride
Words that rhyme with dire
arthrodire, avodire, cryptodire, pleurodire
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