Dreadful, acute, dismal, and doom and gloom are all synonyms for dire. Good, mild, and encouraging are these antonyms of dire. And here are another 57 synonyms for dire.
Dire Synonyms
1. unspeakable
- Acute
- Alarming
- Appalling
- Atrocious
- Awful
- Calamitous
- Cataclysmic
- Catastrophic
- Chronic
- Crippling
- Critical
- Crucial
- Crying
- Desperate
- Devastating
- Direful
- Disastrous
- Distressing
- Drastic
- Dreadful
- Extreme
- Frightful
- Grave
- Grievous
- Grim
- Harrowing
- Hopeless
- Horrible
- Irretrievable
- Lousy
- Miserable
- Outrageous
- Parlous
- Pressing
- Ruinous
- Serious
- Shocking
- Sore
- Terrible
- Unspeakable
- Urgent
- Woeful
- Wretched
- Vital
2. sinister
- Dismal
- Doom and gloom
- Dreadful
- Gloomy
- Grim
- Inauspicious
- Ominous
- Portentous
- Sinister
- Unfavourable
- Unpropitious
- Pessimistic