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adj. Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous: a dire economic forecast; dire threats.

adj. Urgent; desperate: in dire need; dire poverty.

adj. Ill-boding; portentous.

adj. Dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.

adj. Urgent, pressing.

adj. Ill-boding; portentous.

adj. Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.

Causing or attended by great fear or terrible suffering; dreadful; awful: as, dire disaster; the dire results of intemperance.

Synonyms Fearful, woeful, disastrous, calamitous, destructive, terrific, awful, portentous.

adj. fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless

adj. causing fear or dread or terror

"On Friday, the LCC also detailed what it described as dire humanitarian conditions and other developments in several locales."

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