dire
dahyr
- s fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
a dire emergency - s causing fear or dread or terror
dire news
a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked
- The rest were in dire straits, attacked on one flank by fading revenues, on the other by reformers who think the public schools are undemocratic.
- Still, while party dissidents issue dire warnings about the fallout if Liani-Papandreou runs for office in national elections scheduled for 1997, close associates confirm that the .
- It has brought me a lot of strength and wisdom in the sense that even in the most dire times, I didn't get lost.