Synonym: awful, bad, black, disastrous, dreadful, horrible, terrible, tragic, wretched. Similar words: direct, director, directly, direction, in all directions, direct investment, dirt, hire. Meaning: ['daɪə] 
adj. 1. fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless 2. causing fear or dread or terror.
adj. 1. fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless 2. causing fear or dread or terror. 
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31, The situation looked dire.
32, Think of them as a punk Dire Straits.
33, It pull them in dire financial straits.
34, It's hard to believe just how dire it is.
35, In Florida, the situation is more dire.
36, Take the current fascination with dire forecasts, for example.
37, But let us not jump to dire conclusions.
38, Everton, to put it bluntly, are in dire straits.
39, The dire light and dark shadows foxed him.
40, The company is in dire financial straits.
41, The sweep into Putumayo promises equally dire consequences.
42, The situation is dire, but not yet irreparable.
43, The other challenge was perhaps more dire.
44, Screen acting doesn't get much more dire than this.
45, That was the rift that grabbed headlines late in 1990, as a result of a dire forecast.
46, At the time, rebels were in dire need of arms.
47, Working with Dire straits has always been a vocation for me.
48, And they neglect an equally dire risk: A minimum wage that is too low leaves people to languish on welfare.
49, The dire warnings of world shortages have not come to pass.
50, He derived, so far as I could tell(sentencedict.com), not the slightest satisfaction from seeing his most dire predictions fulfilled.
51, Hrudey was a casualty of a team in dire financial trouble that wanted to lop off its higher-priced and older players.
52, I was told that in Britain the weather has to be really dire before a mountain rescue search is called off.
53, The harp, an instrument Britten favored, proved particularly pleasing, its celestial tones foreshadowing Billy's dire end.
54, This dire situation exists despite a welter of management plans, royalties, taxes, and fees.
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55, After witnessing scurvy's dire effects, naval surgeon James Lind decided to do something about it.
56, We didn't make Abisko, chickening out as the weather worsened and the forecasts began to sound even more dire.
57, Despite the firm's dire financial health, they have a slim chance of pulling this off.
58, As a result, at least some of the Bill's dire consequences were mitigated.
59, Peggy realized what dire financial straits she was in when her husband died.
60, The team is in such dire straits they've even considered selling their three best players.
More similar words: direct, director, directly, direction, in all directions, direct investment, dirt, hire, tire, wire, mire, fired, fire up, admire, retire, on fire, satire, desire, empire, perspire, inspire, acquire, retired, require, entirely, required, catch fire, set fire to, be tired of, retirement.