All dire synonyms

adj dire

• acute — An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed. You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute. For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'café'.
• critical — If a person is critical or in a critical condition in hospital, they are seriously ill.
• desperate — If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
• drastic — acting with force or violence; violent.
• distressing — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• dreadful — causing great dread, fear, or terror; terrible: a dreadful storm.
• disastrous — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
• alarming — Something that is alarming makes you feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
• calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
• horrible — causing or tending to cause horror; shockingly dreadful: a horrible sight.
• appalling — Something that is appalling is so bad or unpleasant that it shocks you.
• depressing — Something that is depressing makes you feel sad and disappointed.
• ugly — very unattractive or unpleasant to look at; offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance.
• cataclysmic — A cataclysmic event is one that changes a situation or society very greatly, especially in an unpleasant way.
• gloomy — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
• dismal — causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
• unfortunate — suffering from bad luck: an unfortunate person.
• catastrophic — Something that is catastrophic involves or causes a sudden terrible disaster.
• awful — If you say that someone or something is awful, you dislike that person or thing or you think that they are not very good.
• shocking — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
• lamentable — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
• grim — stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
• burning — You use burning to describe something that is extremely hot.
• clamant — noisy
• clamorous — If you describe people or their voices as clamorous, you mean they are talking loudly or shouting.
• crying — notorious; lamentable (esp in the phrase crying shame)
• immoderate — not moderate; exceeding just or reasonable limits; excessive; extreme.
• imperative — imperative language
• importunate — urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
• instant — an infinitesimal or very short space of time; a moment: They arrived not an instant too soon.
• pressing — urgent; demanding immediate attention: a pressing need.
• climacteric — a critical event or period
• black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
• cruel — Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
• deplorable — If you say that something is deplorable, you think that it is very bad and unacceptable.
• fearful — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
• fierce — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
• frightful — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
• grievous — causing grief or great sorrow: grievous news.
• heartbreaking — causing intense anguish or sorrow.
• portentous — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
• redoubtable — that is to be feared; formidable.
• regrettable — causing or deserving regret; unfortunate; deplorable.
• ruinous — bringing or tending to bring ruin; destructive; disastrous: a ruinous war.
• terrific — extraordinarily great or intense: terrific speed.
• woeful — full of woe; wretched; unhappy: a woeful situation.
• afflictive — causing pain or misery
• horrid — such as to cause horror; shockingly dreadful; abominable.
• oppressing — to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.
• scowling — to draw down or contract the brows in a sullen, displeased, or angry manner.