Dire Synonyms and Rhyming Words

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 and rhyming words for dire as well as words beginning with D and Di.

Dire Synonyms

1. unspeakable

alarming
appalling
atrocious
calamitous
cataclysmic
catastrophic
chronic
crippling
crying
direful
disastrous
distressing
dreadful
extreme
frightful
grievous
harrowing
irretrievable
lousy
outrageous
parlous
pressing
ruinous
shocking
sore
unspeakable
woeful
wretched

2. sinister

dismal
doom and gloom
dreadful
inauspicious
portentous
unfavourable
unpropitious

Rhyming Words for Dire

310 rhyming words for dire, grouped by word length. 1 rhyme with 2-letters, 5 rhymes with 3-letters, 32 rhymes with 4-letters, 31 rhymes with 5-letters, 50 rhymes with 6-letters, 60 rhymes with 7-letters, 36 rhymes with 8-letters, 42 rhymes with 9-letters, 21 rhymes with 10-letters, 12 rhymes with 11-letters, 9 rhymes with 12-letters, 9 rhymes with 13-letters, and 2 rhymes with 14-letters for dire.

Dire Rhymes

4-Letter Dire Rhymes

fire
hire
tire
mire
sure
more
care
mere
here
sore
rare
pure
bore
core
dare
bare
hare
fore
cure
fare
ware
pore
lure
jure
yore
ogre
lore
gyre
were
sere
pare
wore

5-Letter Dire Rhymes

noire
shire
faire
afire
spire
adore
there
store
score
spare
share
where
aware
genre
stare
scare
metre
fibre
chore
lucre
glare
vivre
inure
cadre
blare
azure
snare
shore
entre
flare
swore

6-Letter Dire Rhymes

desire
retire
admire
attire
aspire
empire
entire
umpire
expire
squire
galore
future
before
nature
centre
severe
endure
secure
allure
sphere
sombre
square
mature
revere
adhere
figure
meagre
furore
injure
demure
lustre
unsure
timbre
assure
ignore
hombre
propre
adjure
euchre
insure
abjure
beware
impure
immure
suture
oeuvre
louvre
fiacre
manure
tenure

7-Letter Dire Rhymes

haywire
require
acquire
affaire
inspire
inquire
gunfire
misfire
vampire
censure
leisure
sincere
feature
prepare
nurture
austere
bizarre
procure
venture
rapture
restore
measure
declare
mixture
culture
calibre
capture
picture
lecture
torture
obscure
gesture
texture
warfare
explore
welfare
compare
unaware
posture
ensnare
nowhere
stature
spectre
closure
rupture
macabre
seizure
fissure
pasture
sceptre
perjure
implore
failure
fixture
tempore
conjure
majeure
couture
verdure
theatre

8-Letter Dire Rhymes

cheshire
conspire
ayrshire
backfire
wildfire
treasure
pleasure
immature
accoutre
cynosure
hardware
software
firmware
insecure
pressure
premiere
exposure
puncture
juncture
creature
evermore
overture
mediocre
reassure
fracture
massacre
compadre
aperture
cocksure
tincture
folklore
entendre
moisture
treeware
jointure
refigure

9-Letter Dire Rhymes

ceasefire
pourboire
transpire
sanitaire
solitaire
therefore
wherefore
manoeuvre
debenture
recapture
nightmare
biosphere
adventure
procedure
composure
interfere
insincere
structure
disfigure
miniature
departure
stricture
enrapture
sculpture
premature
persevere
extempore
furniture
scripture
enclosure
curvature
carnivore
indenture
sophomore
admeasure
signature
megastore
stripbare
admixture
sepulchre
somewhere
heartsore

10-Letter Dire Rhymes

repertoire
escritoire
secretaire
everywhere
heretofore
underscore
middleware
healthcare
atmosphere
lacklustre
threescore
threadbare
disclosure
disfeature
literature
conjecture
forfeiture
aerosphere
commissure
caricature
superstore

11-Letter Dire Rhymes

doctrinaire
temperature
displeasure
furthermore
manufacture
forevermore
agriculture
portraiture
reconnoitre
expenditure
investiture
transfigure

Other Rhymes for Dire

Re, ire, ere, are, pre, tre, architecture, discomposure, nomenclature, substructure, misadventure, peradventure, discomfiture, outmanoeuvre, stratosphere, architecture, discomposure, nomenclature, substructure, misadventure, peradventure, discomfiture, outmanoeuvre, stratosphere, infrastructure, and understructure all rhyme with dire.

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