What are the antonyms for DIRE?
- heartwarming, cheerful, bright, benign, optimistic, festive, contemptible, auspicious, fortunate, nice, light, mild, lowly, vulgar, good, humble, negligible, consoling, inviting, lightsome, safe, merry, minor, lucky, wonderful, sunny, trivial, calming, blithe, happy, incidental, commonplace, tranquilizing, pacifying, pleasant, relaxing, beggarly, base, noncrucial, blessed, beautiful, joyous, friendly, lulling, lighthearted, paltry, mean, cheering, cheery, jocund, despicable, joyful, reassuring, unthreatening, encouraging, mirthful, inferior, comforting, hopeful, calm, pleasing, buoyant, cordial, sunshiny, undignified, jolly, stable, blithesome, soothing, prosperous, unimportant, unalarming.
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Synonyms for DIRE
- badly,
- keen,
- dread,
- grisly,
- depressive,
- bitter,
- on thin ice,
- burning,
- loury,
- instant,
- disastrous,
- apocalyptic,
- touch and go,
- horrifyin,
- fearful,
- dreadfully,
- luck,
- crummy,
- malefic,
- crucial,
- heart-rending,
- Dolesome,
- tragic,
- bad break,
- Dolent,
- imperative,
- scalding,
- Mortiferous,
- fatally,
- puny,
- low-class,
- afflictive,
- painful,
- ill-omened,
- stern,
- Requiring,
- horrid,
- fateful,
- out and out,
- sore,
- scary,
- formidable,
- Wrackful,
- Searing,
- damning,
- deficient,
- sad,
- critical,
- high-level,
- shabby,
- pressing,
- anguished,
- extra ordinary,
- desperate,
- fire-and-brimstone,
- cruel,
- clamorous,
- Impendent,
- Extirpative,
- down on luck,
- unlucky,
- climacteric,
- keenly,
- second-rate,
- very grave,
- third-rate,
- high-priority,
- mischievous,
- severely,
- Perseverant,
- Lowery,
- ghastly,
- third class,
- fearsome,
- warn,
- shuddersome,
- Eradicative,
- Dolorific,
- acute,
- mortal,
- risky,
- extravagant,
- supreme,
- spectacular,
- explosive,
- profound,
- nightmarish,
- tremendous,
- frontal,
- no nonsense,
- chronic,
- nagging,
- fierce,
- on-the-spot,
- bad,
- extreme,
- wretched,
- proper,
- importunate,
- woeful,
- god-awful,
- safety,
- rigid,
- emergent,
- black,
- comminatory,
- Wreckful,
- distressing,
- exigent,
- scowling,
- threatening,
- grave,
- dodgy,
- redoubtable,
- out of proportion,
- far,
- ugly,
- severe,
- overhanging,
- terrific,
- rigorous,
- dreadful,
- stiff,
- Doomful,
- terrible,
- unspeakable,
- harmful,
- baleful,
- dismal,
- disgraceful,
- dreaded,
- tumbledown,
- extremely bad,
- massive,
- awful,
- rotten,
- dire,
- sharply,
- heat-on,
- apocalyptical,
- depressing,
- Intimidatory,
- diabolical,
- alarming,
- hard luck,
- the end,
- hanging by thread,
- inexpressible,
- portentous,
- crying,
- unutterable,
- big,
- irreparable,
- pivotal,
- weak,
- scandalous,
- heavy-duty,
- strong,
- undescribable,
- premonitory,
- ultimate,
- behind eight ball,
- low-grade,
- merciless,
- horrible,
- deplorable,
- split-second,
- of great consequence,
- destructive,
- shocking,
- bastardized,
- Incommunicable,
- on the spot,
- appalling,
- fear,
- irremediable,
- hurry-up,
- somber,
- heartbreaking,
- hideous,
- Harassing,
- crushing,
- baneful,
- traumatic,
- over hanging,
- subhuman,
- unfortunate,
- overkill,
- beyond words,
- Lethiferous,
- climatic,
- indefinable,
- murderous,
- minatory,
- frightful,
- intense,
- pitiful,
- ferocious,
- Exceptive,
- smarting,
- unbearable,
- draconian,
- peaker,
- catastrophic,
- calamitous,
- grody,
- all-important,
- immoderate,
- illomened,
- dearly,
- execrable,
- defying description,
- repulsive,
- lamentable,
- godawful,
- egregious,
- shoddy,
- blackhearted,
- grievous,
- gloomy,
- poorly,
- savage,
- full,
- out of luck,
- minacious,
- insistent,
- stark,
- tough luck,
- horrendous,
- fervid,
- ominous,
- poor,
- life and death,
- Precursive,
- sublime,
- horrific,
- serious,
- direful,
- unpleasant,
- frightening,
- grabber,
- embarrassing,
- malificent,
- drastic,
- Oppressing,
- opprobrious,
- hellfire,
- fire and brimstone,
- unpromising,
- state,
- abysmal,
- climactical,
- fatal,
- terribly,
- ruinous,
- gross,
- heavy,
- regrettable,
- dolorous,
- cataclysmic,
- terminal,
- grim,
- towering,
- urgent,
- feller,
- clamant,
- sinister,
- death-dealing.
Usage Examples for DIRE
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Recently the dire significance of his situation had struck him to the heart. - "By Veldt and Kopje" by William Charles Scully
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Dire fact to contemplate! - "Life Is A Dream" by Pedro Calderon de la Barca Translated by Denis Florence MacCarthy
