Dire synonyms

57 synonyms for dire such as dreadful, acute, dismal, and doom and gloom. Dire is an adjective, and its antonyms are good, mild, and encouraging.

Another word for dire

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, vital, woeful, and wretched.

2. sinister

Dismal, doom and gloom, dreadful, gloomy, grim, inauspicious, ominous, pessimistic, portentous, sinister, unfavourable, and unpropitious.

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