dire
IPA: dˈaɪr
adjective
- Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
- Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
- Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
- (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
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Examples of "dire" in Sentences
- The newspaper was in dire straits.
- In 1816, the situation of the country was dire.
- The Dire Wraiths are the main opponents of Rom the Spaceknight.
- Some of the claims made by the article are in dire need of sources.
- Additionaly, the rest of the article is in dire need of reorganization.
- In the future maybe but the state of the EU military is dire right now.
- By 1939, in the last dire years of the Depression, Neibaur was destitute.
- The employers also warned the courts of the dire consequences of leniency.
- My own view is that the grievances are dire, but I'm blissfully not on ArbCom.
- By the end of 1918, the situation for the Ukrainian National Republic was dire.
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