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Adjective Needing immediate attention acute crying pressing critical urgent desperate extreme burning clamant compelling drastic emergent exigent grave imperative imperious importunate instant necessitous serious sore crucial vital clamorous climacteric immoderate “… a dire need for food and medicine in the famine-stricken country.” Adjective Extremely serious or urgent terrible alarming appalling awful dreadful horrible disastrous frightful grim catastrophic desperate ruinous shocking calamitous cataclysmic critical crucial crying fearful pressing woeful atrocious cruel distressing extreme grievous unspeakable urgent direful dismal drastic gloomy grave harrowing outrageous serious crippling devastating dread fearsome forbidding formidable frightening ghastly godawful hair-raising hopeless horrendous horrid horrifying intimidating irretrievable miserable ominous redoubtable scary spine-chilling terrifying wretched abysmal bodeful chronic exigent lousy parlous portentous afflictive deplorable fierce heartbreaking lamentable oppressing regrettable scowling terrific ugly unfortunate “But Wisconsin is arguably in the most dire straits.” Adjective Being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come ominous portentous sinister inauspicious baleful direful dismal doomy dreadful foreboding gloomy grim ill ill-boding menacing minatory threatening pessimistic unfavorableUS unfavourableUK unpropitious doom and gloom “The State Department has issued dire warnings with threats of tens of thousands of dollars in fines.” Adjective Causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer black bleak cheerless chill Cimmerian cloudy cold comfortless dark darkening depressing depressive desolate disconsolate dismal drear dreary dreich elegiac elegiacal forlorn funereal gloomy glum godforsaken grayUS greyUK lonely lonesome lugubrious miserable morbid morose murky plutonian saturnine sepulchral solemn somberUS sombreUK sullen sunless tenebrific tenebrous wretched “… with stock prices steadily falling, these are dire days on the trading floor.” Find more words! 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