173 Moby Thesaurus words for "dire":
abominable, apocalyptic, appalling, arrant, astounding, atrocious,
awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful,
base, beastly, beneath contempt, black, blameworthy, bodeful,
boding, brutal, burning, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic,
catastrophic, clamant, clamorous, climacteric, contemptible,
critical, crucial, crying, dark, deplorable, depressed, depressing,
desperate, despicable, destructive, detestable, direful,
disastrous, disgusting, distressing, donsie, doomful, dread,
dreaded, dreadful, dreary, egregious, enormous, evil, evil-starred,
exigent, fatal, fateful, fell, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foreboding,
formidable, fortuneless, foul, frightful, fulsome, funest, ghastly,
ghoulish, gloomy, grievous, grim, grisly, gross, gruesome, hapless,
hateful, heartbreaking, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible,
horrid, horrific, horrifying, ill, ill off, ill-boding, ill-fated,
ill-omened, ill-starred, imperative, importunate,
in adverse circumstances, inauspicious, infamous, instant,
lamentable, loathsome, lousy, lowering, luckless, macabre,
menacing, monstrous, morbid, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious,
obnoxious, odious, of evil portent, offensive, ominous,
out of luck, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, planet-struck,
portending, portentous, rank, redoubtable, regrettable,
reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, ruinous, sad, scandalous,
schlock, schrecklich, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy,
short of luck, sinister, somber, sordid, squalid, star-crossed,
terrible, terrific, threatening, too bad, tragic, tremendous,
unblessed, unclean, underprivileged, unfavorable, unfortunate,
unhappy, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, unprosperous,
unprovidential, unspeakable, untoward, urgent, vile, villainous,
woeful, worst, worthless, wreckful, wretched
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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