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dire    音标拼音: [d'ɑɪr] [d'ɑɪɚ]
a. 可怕的,悲惨的,阴惨的,极端的

可怕的,悲惨的,阴惨的,极端的

dire
adj 1: 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" [synonym: {desperate},
{dire}]
2: 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" [synonym: {awful}, {dire},
{direful}, {dread(a)}, {dreaded}, {dreadful}, {fearful},
{fearsome}, {frightening}, {horrendous}, {horrific},
{terrible}]

Dire \Dire\ (d[imac]r), a. [Compar. {Direr} (d[imac]r"[~e]r);
superl. {Direst}.] [L. dirus; of uncertain origin.]
1. Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.
[1913 Webster]

2. Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible;
terrible; lamentable.
[1913 Webster]

Dire was the tossing, deep the groans. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

173 Moby Thesaurus words for "dire":
abominable, apocalyptic, appalling, arrant, astounding, atrocious,
awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful,
base, beastly, beneath contempt, black, blameworthy, bodeful,
boding, brutal, burning, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic,
catastrophic, clamant, clamorous, climacteric, contemptible,
critical, crucial, crying, dark, deplorable, depressed, depressing,
desperate, despicable, destructive, detestable, direful,
disastrous, disgusting, distressing, donsie, doomful, dread,
dreaded, dreadful, dreary, egregious, enormous, evil, evil-starred,
exigent, fatal, fateful, fell, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foreboding,
formidable, fortuneless, foul, frightful, fulsome, funest, ghastly,
ghoulish, gloomy, grievous, grim, grisly, gross, gruesome, hapless,
hateful, heartbreaking, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible,
horrid, horrific, horrifying, ill, ill off, ill-boding, ill-fated,
ill-omened, ill-starred, imperative, importunate,
in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, infamous, instant,
lamentable, loathsome, lousy, lowering, luckless, macabre,
menacing, monstrous, morbid, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious,
obnoxious, odious, of evil portent, offensive, ominous,
out of luck, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, planet-struck,
portending, portentous, rank, redoubtable, regrettable,
reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, ruinous, sad, scandalous,
schlock, schrecklich, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy,
short of luck, sinister, somber, sordid, squalid, star-crossed,
terrible, terrific, threatening, too bad, tragic, tremendous,
unblessed, unclean, underprivileged, unfavorable, unfortunate,
unhappy, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, unprosperous,
unprovidential, unspeakable, untoward, urgent, vile, villainous,
woeful, worst, worthless, wreckful, wretched


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  • DIRE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    The meaning of DIRE is exciting horror How to use dire in a sentence
  • DIRE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    in dire need of These people are in dire need of help dire warning He gave a dire warning that an earthquake was imminent dire consequences This decision will have dire consequences for local people
  • Dire - Definition, Meaning Synonyms - Vocabulary. com
    Dire refers to situations or events that cause great fear and worry A dire calamity causes much suffering If a family is in dire need, they need immediate help Dire predictions or warnings tell us that a disaster may happen in the future
  • DIRE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
    Dire is used to emphasize how serious or terrible a situation or event is A government split would have dire consequences for domestic peace He was in dire need of hospital treatment dire poverty If you describe something as dire, you are emphasizing that it is of very low quality
  • Dire - definition of dire by The Free Dictionary
    Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous: a dire economic forecast; dire threats 2 Urgent; desperate: in dire need; dire poverty [Latin dīrus, fearsome, terrible; akin to Greek deinos ] dire′ness n American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition
  • DIRE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    See examples of DIRE used in a sentence
  • dire adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
    Definition of dire adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
  • What does dire mean? - Definitions. net
    Dire is an adjective used to describe something that is extremely serious, urgent, or terrible It often refers to situations or circumstances that may have disastrous or calamitous outcomes It is characterized by severe, serious, intense and extreme conditions that often cause great fear or worry Etymology: [L dirus; of uncertain origin ]
  • What Does Dire Mean? - The Word Counter
    According to Collins English Dictionary and the the American Heritage Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, the word dire is an adjective that means serious and terrible Many things can be dire and cause great fear, extreme danger, suffering, terror, and disaster
  • dire, adj. n. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English Dictionary
    There are five meanings listed in OED's entry for the word dire, two of which are labelled obsolete See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence





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