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1. (adj.) dire
causing or involving great fear or suffering; terrible.
2. dire
indicating trouble, disaster, or the like:
dire predictions.
3. dire
urgent; desperate:
in dire need.
Etymology: (1560–70; < L dīrus fearful, unlucky)
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1. (adj) desperate, 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"
2. (adj) awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
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"
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1. (adjective) dire
extremely bad
dire weather conditions; in dire need of renovation
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1. dire
ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens
2. dire
evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable
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Sense: dreadful; perilous.
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 Afrikaans: vreeslike |
 Arabic: رَهيب، مُفْزِع، مُنْذِر ب |
 Bulgarian: ужасен |
 Brazilian: perigoso |
 Czech: hrozný |
 German: gräßlich |
 Danish: skrækkelig; forfærdelig; |
 Greek: φοβερός, επικίνδυνος |
 Spanish: terrible, espantoso, atro |
 Estonian: kohutav |
 Farsi: وحشتناک؛ سهمگین |
 Finnish: kauhea |
 French: terrible |
 Hebrew: נוֹרָא, אָיוֹם |
 Hindi: भयानक, खतरनाक |
 Croatian: strašan, poguban |
 Hungarian: szörnyű |
 Indonesian: berbahaya |
 Icelandic: hræðilegur, ógnþrunginn |
 Italian: tremendo |
 Japanese: 恐ろしい |
 Korean: 무시무시한 |
 Lithuanian: baisus |
 Latvian: drausmīgs; šausmīgs |
 Malay: hebat |
 Dutch: vreselijk |
 Norwegian: forferdelig; i dyp nød |
 Polish: straszny |
 Persian: وحشتناک؛ سهمگین |
 Pashto: ډير و يروونكى: خورا خو فن |
 Portuguese: perigoso |
 Romanian: groaznic, cumplit |
 Russian: ужасный |
 Slovak: strašný, nebezpečný |
 Slovenian: strašen |
 Serbian: porazan |
 Swedish: gräslig, förfärlig, hemsk |
 Thai: เลวร้ายมาก |
 Turkish: korkunç, müthiş |
 Taiwanese: 可怕的 |
 Ukrainian: жахливий, страшний |
 Urdu: المناک |
 Vietnamese: thảm khốc |
 Chinese: 可怕的 |
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