dire

dire /'daiə/
  • tính từ
    • thảm khốc, khốc liệt, tàn khốc; kinh khủng
      • with dire crueltry: với sự tàn bạo kinh khủng

Xem thêm: desperate, awful, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible



dire

Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; desperate

    a desperate illness

    on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency

  • causing fear or dread or terror; awful, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible

    the awful war

    an awful risk

    dire news

    a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked

    the dread presence of the headmaster

    polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was

    a dreadful storm

    a fearful howling

    horrendous explosions shook the city

    a terrible curse


English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

direr|direst
syn.: awful bad black disastrous dreadful horrible terrible tragic wretched