Dire synonyms such as dreadful, acute, dismal, and doom and gloom. Dire is an adjective, and its antonyms are good, mild, and encouraging. Additionally, here are 57 synonyms, related words, and verbs for dire.
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.
dismal, doom and gloom, dreadful, gloomy, grim, inauspicious, ominous, pessimistic, portentous, sinister, unfavourable, and unpropitious.