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Dire meaning

Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous. | Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing. | Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.

Example sentences (20)

The need is dire: Success is the difference between the city saving its economic vitality and the College of Charleston’s dire projections coming to fruition.

Inevitably, our dire situation doesn’t seem so dire anymore, but that’s only because it’s not flashing on our phones for us to effortlessly see.

Or you can just say, for example, “Alexa, play Dire Straits,” and she’ll answer back, “Shuffling songs by Dire Straits from Prime Music,” and you’ll get a nice selection that’ll play for an hour or so.

Lois Schwarz, founder of the Dire Wolf Project, is creating a breed of canine that looks like a dire wolf but has the temperament of a lap dog.

According to the scientists involved in writing the report, India would also face these dire consequences of global warming and needs to take immediate action to curb the temperature.

A Confederation of British Industry spokesman said: “Travel disruption during the all-important festive trading period could have dire consequences for businesses already struggling against severe economic headwinds.

All those dire warnings.

Although our present net import of paper and paper products is over 380 million metric tonnes, Nigeria is still faced with a dire need of these products to meet the local paper requirements of the country’s increasing population.

Although the situation in Atlanta appears dire, we will never allow anti-democratic forces to dim our hope.

Another student who also benefited from the scholarship, Nafiu Adamu said “At this trying time students are in dire need of this kind gesture.

Arguably the most talked-about movie of 2019, director Bong Joon-ho hit it out of the park with this black comedy thriller about a poor family in South Korea who, in an attempt to improve their dire straits, hatch a seemingly clever plan.

A Russian general said he had been dismissed as a commander after telling the military leadership about the dire situation at the front in where he said Russian soldiers had been stabbed in the back by the failings of the top military brass.

A single city of Czarnians may not be anywhere near as dire as the entire world of them that Lobo laid waste to, but it is still going to be a far graver concern than what the DC Universe usually faces.

As part of that investigation, McCaul requested a series of “dissent channel” memos written by career diplomats who warned that the hasty withdrawal could lead to dire consequences for both our own troops and our Afghan partners.

Aspect of the Dire Whirlwind: (Barbarian) Whirlwind’s Critical Strike Chance is increased by 3% for each second it is channeled, up to 9%.

As Rev. Hescox said, you can't be pro-life without caring about the dire consequences of toxins, pollution, greenhouse gases, and a warming planet.

As Shoya Ishida contemplates taking his life, he changes his mind at the last minute when he recalls his elementary school days and the events that led him to the dire situation.

As time goes on and circumstances become more dire, this reality becomes unavoidable as it demands to be taken seriously.

Back home, things had turned dire.

Balance-sheet strength does exist: The sub-sector’s solvency, in our view, is not as dire as overall sentiment suggests.