dire 的定义
dir·er, dir·est.
- causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- indicating trouble, disaster, misfortune, or the like: dire predictions about the stock market.
- urgent; desperate: in dire need of food.
dire 近义词
urgent; crucial
terrible, ominous
dire 的近义词 36 个
- alarming
- appalling
- awful
- calamitous
- cataclysmic
- catastrophic
- depressing
- disastrous
- dismal
- distressing
- dreadful
- gloomy
- grim
- horrible
- lamentable
- shocking
- ugly
- unfortunate
- afflictive
- black
- cruel
- deplorable
- fearful
- fierce
- frightful
- grievous
- heartbreaking
- horrid
- oppressing
- portentous
- redoubtable
- regrettable
- ruinous
- scowling
- terrific
- woeful
dire 的反义词 21 个
更多dire例句
- Through interviews with children and other relatives, we learn about a warm and loving person who was fully accepted on her own terms by a wife and kids that stayed loyal despite an unstable and often dire lifestyle.
- The commission predicted that the future would be bleaker and that there would be dire consequences for the state’s economy if sweeping changes were not made.
- If we don’t have clear and convincing answers to those questions, then the bill creates potentially dire consequences for the internet we know and love.
- Salsman allegedly told her the situation was dire — she might face jail time — but he could still represent her in exchange for sex, according to state prosecutors.
- The president faces many dire challenges, but in one way, he has it easier than Obama did.
- So, what happens if nothing in his training has replicated such a dire condition?
- “Driving on both sides, getting around cars, letting them know I was in a dire emergency,” Johnson says.
- Kim Jung-un clearly recognizes that Hollywood and American popular culture in general constitute a dire threat.
- The results of that rash decision, the most dire of which has been the rise of ISIS, are now plain for us to see.
- The dire fatalism that dominated the discourse then is gone, replaced largely with a practiced apathy.
- De moi, je ne say qu'en dire, d'autant que je ne veux affirmer ny le si ny le non en ce dont je n'ay vidence.
- Car les Angloys s'en veulent dire maistres, et sur ce ils produysoyent des lettres de leur Roy, mais ce que nous croyons fausses.
- In fact it was a battle between the dire disease and that powerful constitution for which the Brown family is celebrated.
- A terrific roar followed, the canvas was instantly torn open, and the whole tent fell in dire confusion on the top of its inmates.
- Some are on wood, some on porcelain, some on glass, some on dire deeds intent.