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What is the adjective for direly?

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dire
  1. Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
  2. Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
  3. Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
  4. (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. dreadful, terrible, awful, appalling, horrible, shocking, horrifying, grim, frightful, frightening, ghastly, alarming, horrendous, terrifying, forbidding, scary, wretched, unfortunate, fearsome, horrid, miserable, deplorable, grave, fearful, atrocious, direful, intimidating, formidable, woeful, dismal, gloomy, unspeakable, ominous, redoubtable, hopeless, dread, serious, critical, lousy, abysmal, outrageous, cruel, terrific, ugly, godawful, parlous, bodeful, extreme, afflictive, fierce … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “What did it matter if the same messenger bore dire news of lords slaughtered in far places, of the troops of the Wolf Lord Raj Ahten striking all through the kingdoms of Rofehavan?”
      “The State Department has issued dire warnings with threats of tens of thousands of dollars in fines.”
      “A sense of normality had swiftly replaced the dire atmosphere of fear.”
direr
  1. comparative form of dire: more dire
  2. Synonyms:
      3. worse, inferior, poorer, shoddier, dodgier, grottier, hackier, junkier, lousier, poor, poxier, ropier, sadder, shabbier, sorrier, tawdrier, trashier, of inferior quality, of poorer quality, not as good as, more abysmal, more appalling, more atrocious, more deficient, more deplorable, more diabolical, more direful, more dismal, more dreadful, more execrable, more flawed, more imperfect, more inadequate, more lamentable, more mediocre, more pathetic, more pitiful, more suboptimal, more subpar, more sub-par, more substandard, more terrible, more unacceptable, more unsatisfactory, more worthless, not so good, not as good, not as favorable, not as nice, terribler … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “With his direr passions had been roused up all the native powers that made them doubly dangerous.”
      “One member mentioned that for over 50 years people have lived in refugee camps under the most direr conditions.”
      “The second visit was the more dangerous, and fraught with direr consequences.”
direst
  1. superlative form of dire: most dire
  2. Synonyms:
      3. worst, poorest, lousiest, foulest, shoddiest, vilest, crummiest, grottiest, lamest, trashiest, crudest, junkiest, nastiest, wretchedest, most abhorrent, most abominable, most abysmal, most appalling, most atrocious, most average, most awful, most below par, most below standard, most contemptible, most deficient, most deplorable, most detestable, most diabolical, most disagreeable, most disgraceful, most dismal, most dissatisfactory, most distasteful, most dreadful, most execrable, most flawed, most frightful, most God-awful, most hideous, most horrendous, most imperfect, most impure, most inadequate, most inferior, most lamentable, most loathsome, most low-grade, most low-quality, most low-ranking, most malodorous … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “She sat under the boughs of a tree and cried, and her tears formed this pool, this pool the direst of blue to symbolize her sorrow.”
      “But, as I imagine it was meant to do, it was also reassuring to see what fail-safes and other options exist in even the direst circumstances.”
      “Even in the direst circumstances, light-heartedness, laughter and falling in love are permissible.”
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