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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181, Before the confidence vote, Prime Minister Mario Monti told the senate of the urgent need to tackle the nation's dire economic problems. He then set out his austerity programme.
182, Ms. Martin says the plight of rape victims is especially dire in Darfur because roughly nine out of ten Sudanese women undergo an extreme form of female circumcision.
183, But Ned Xoubi fuel cycle commissioner at Jordan's Atomic Energy Commission, said: "Developing countries are in dire need of energy.
184, Not so long ago, doctors gave dire warnings about masturbation, writing all manner of treatises on the vice of onanism and its physically deleterious effects.
185, However, dire figures for exports in January (a fall of 4.4% compared with December) aroused fears that the hoped-for boom in exports will be stillborn.
186, "Is it a dire threat that by 2020 the United States will have only 20 times more advanced stealth fighters than China?" he added at the Eisenhower presidential library in Abilene, Kansas.
187, With cyclones of ever increasing severity and the pressure from human population threatening the bird, the Southern Cassowary is in dire straits at the moment.
188, He said the situation was dire and that time was of the essence.
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.