dire

Meanings

• fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless;
• "a dire emergency"
• causing fear or dread or terror;
• "dire news"
• "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"
• DIRE adj DIRER, DIREST disastrous

Synonyms

• desperate
• awful
• direful
• dread
• dreaded
• dreadful
• fearful
• fearsome
• frightening
• horrendous
• horrific
• terrible

Scrabble Score: 5

dire is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

dire is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

dire is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 5

dire is a valid Words With Friends word

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