What's another word for
What's the opposite of
Meaning of the word
Words that rhyme with
Sentences with the word
Translate
From English
To English
to
Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Cebuano
Chichewa
Chinese
Corsican
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Esperanto
Estonian
Farsi
Filipino
Finnish
French
Frisian
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hausa
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Kurdish
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marathi
Mongolian
Burmese
Nepali
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Samoan
Scots Gaelic
Serbian
Sesotho
Shona
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Spanish
Sundanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu
Find Words
All Words
2-Letter Words
3-Letter Words
4-Letter Words
5-Letter Words
6-Letter Words
7-Letter Words
8-Letter Words
9-Letter Words
10-Letter Words
11-Letter Words
12-Letter Words
13-Letter Words
14-Letter Words
Starting With
Ending With
Containing Exactly
Containing the Letters
Words With Friends
Scrabble
Crossword / Codeword
Use * for blank tiles (max 2)
Use * for blank spaces
Advanced Word Finder
Find the
Plural
Singular
Past Tense
Present Tense
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
Noun
of
Pronounce the word
in
Afrikaans
Albanian
Arabic
Bengali
Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latin
Malay
Malayalam
Marathi
Nepali
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Find Names
Meaning of the name
Origin of the name
Names meaning
Names starting with
Names of origin
Synonyms
Antonyms
Definitions
Rhymes
Sentences
Translations
Find Words
Word Forms
Pronunciations
☀
Appearance
✓
Use device theme
✓
Dark theme
✓
Light theme
What is another word for
dire straits
?
Need
synonyms for dire straits
? Here's a list of
similar words
from our
thesaurus
that you can use instead.
Contexts
▼
▲
A state of financial distress
A state of requiring help
An event or action that causes pain or suffering
A period of hardship or adversity
A difficult (and figurative) problem or situation
… more ▼
▲
Noun
▲
A state of financial distress
impecuniousness
indigence
hardship
beggary
difficulties
misery
straits
desperate straits
want
penury
poverty
destitution
impoverishment
neediness
privation
need
pauperism
pennilessness
impecuniosity
destituteness
insolvency
poorness
distress
penuriousness
necessity
pauperdom
ruin
ruination
vagrancy
mendicancy
reduced circumstances
straitened circumstances
deprivation
disadvantage
financial distress
bankruptcy
extreme poverty
dire poverty
utter poverty
life on the breadline
hand-to-mouth existence
indigency
narrow circumstances
debt
liquidation
receivership
administration
indebtedness
mendicity
financial ruin
begging
primary poverty
wretchedness
squalor
scarcity
lack
deficiency
insufficiency
paucity
meagerness
starvation
shortage
inadequacy
dearth
barrenness
deficit
famine
depletion
necessitousness
difficulty
underdevelopment
abjection
exiguity
emptiness
aridity
pinch
pass
vacancy
reduction
pauperization
failure
crash
disaster
loss
austerity
extremity
humble beginnings
scantness
scantiness
embarrassment
sparseness
suffering
absence
unavailability
oppression
calamity
catastrophe
detriment
scarceness
weakness
bottom
drought
humble upbringing
humble background
humble origins
financial failure
Chapter 11
decline
enervation
enfeeblement
debilitation
economic failure
going belly up
going bankrupt
collapse
closing
folding
downfall
sinking
checkmate
wreck
flop
nonsuccess
failing
washout
fiasco
nonperformance
bomb
rout
breakdown
mess
implosion
lemon
bust
botch
shutting down
winding up
total loss
financial loss
close-down
going under
bad credit
more ❯
“Anyone in
dire straits
because of the floods should turn to the official appeal for help.”
Noun
▲
A state of requiring help
need
crisis
difficulty
hardship
trouble
urgency
distress
emergency
exigency
want
loss
desperate straits
dependence
dependency
misery
woe
wretchedness
adversity
misfortune
suffering
privation
calamity
destitution
poverty
tribulation
affliction
trial
austerity
burden
penury
deprivation
torment
grief
discomfort
grievance
hassle
beggary
disaster
lack
hazard
ruination
rigor
US
injury
travail
worry
travails
catastrophe
vicissitude
rigour
UK
tough luck
hard knocks
tough break
rotten luck
persecution
oppression
neediness
impecuniousness
pain
impecuniosity
hardness
trials
asperity
ruin
sorrow
danger
drudgery
labor
US
curse
accident
labour
UK
peril
mischance
toil
fatigue
trough
bad patch
humble beginnings
Herculean task
trials and tribulations
rainy day
financial distress
uphill battle
indigence
difficulties
impoverishment
straits
bad luck
jam
drag
downer
pickle
crunch
pinch
throe
scrape
bummer
unholy mess
hot water
hard time
ticklish spot
holy mess
hard times
ill-luck
ill luck
can of worms
ill-fortune
more ❯
Noun
▲
An event or action that causes pain or suffering
hurt
adversity
misfortune
trouble
failure
hardship
setback
struggle
tragedy
damage
detriment
disadvantage
disaster
harm
trial
tribulation
catastrophe
debacle
inconvenience
loss
misadventure
mishap
unpleasantness
accident
bad luck
blow
bother
calamity
cataclysm
commotion
hassle
hitch
mischance
mishappening
snag
tumult
bad break
bad news
boo-boo
hard luck
hot water
ill
ill-treatment
persecution
rotten luck
tough luck
disbenefit
straits
travail
ordeal
privation
distress
suffering
sorrow
misery
difficulty
affliction
reverse
woe
wretchedness
heartache
heartbreak
torment
trauma
shock
upset
torture
pain
reversal
crisis
cross
hell
hardness
asperity
rigor
US
buffet
burden
vicissitude
danger
jam
drag
stress
contretemps
dolour
travails
crunch
stroke of bad luck
pain in the bum
kiss of death
harsh conditions
ill-luck
pain in the backside
issue
clutch
downer
hard knocks
poison
nakba
tough situation
hell on earth
ill luck
deep water
jinx
pain in the rear
evil eye
the worst
ill fortune
reversal of fortune
can of worms
rigour
UK
trials and tribulations
ill-fortune
knock
pain in the neck
hurting
stroke of ill luck
skids
hard times
bummer
problem
disappointment
casualty
infelicity
grief
visitation
worry
whammy
reverse of fortune
defeat
nuisance
anxiety
annoyance
lapse
discomfort
unluck
dole
haplessness
unluckiness
ruin
injury
ruination
disgrace
apocalypse
blight
shame
wreck
curse
check
doom
undoing
unfortunateness
untowardness
slip
car crash
destruction
downfall
load
collapse
bane
headache
devastation
crime
sin
albatross
letdown
pity
holocaust
destitution
crucible
blunder
rout
bale
humiliation
crash
mishanter
error
miscalculation
agony
waterloo
frustration
abyss
sad thing
crying shame
cross to bear
unfortunate incident
cause for regret
skid row
source of regret
cause for disappointment
faux pas
sad situation
hard time
non-success
unfortunate thing
bitter pill
mischief
anguish
grievance
strain
evil
malice
cruelty
desperation
ill chance
bath
repulse
anticlimax
bad trot
evil fortune
evil chance
vanquishment
conquering
turnabout
unhappiness
sadness
dismay
one in the eye
body blow
kick in the teeth
bad experience
hold-up
sad event
bad fortune
serious accident
lot
dolor
grievous blow
sordidness
emergency
exigency
end
stroke
hazard
Gehenna
horror
murder
nightmare
fire
perdition
cost
flood
farce
hell in a handbasket
heavy blow
fall
fell stroke
rough situation
act of God
depression
complication
breakdown
death
gauntlet
overthrow
gantlet
nemesis
calvary
failing
aggravation
lack of success
crucifixion
severe test
trying time
labefaction
smash
vexation
oppression
stumble
trip
destroyer
fault
unseating
Waterloo
overturn
annihilation
loss of power
toppling
care
fiasco
wronging
upheaval
double whammy
rainy day
hard knock
scourge
havoc
meltdown
desolation
infliction
tragic state of affairs
bad day
curtains
bad thing
more ❯
Noun
▲
A period of hardship or adversity
rainy day
adversity
hardship
trouble
trough
tribulation
need
neediness
distress
bad patch
trials and tribulations
hard times
crisis
quandary
predicament
struggle
misfortune
plight
dilemma
rigor
US
frustration
pain
oppression
quagmire
extremity
misery
pickle
painfulness
emergency
hazard
impasse
exertion
exigency
knot
muddle
vicissitude
asperity
deadlock
pushing poop uphill
hot water
a spot
discouragement
a scrape
harassment
strait
labor
US
difficulty
a fix
a jam
hardness
rigour
UK
mess
a stew
labour
UK
scrape
a pickle
rough seas
barricade
up poop creak without a paddle
stew
a hole
embarrassment
contretemps
uphill battle
deep water
sweat
depression
crux
dead end
more ❯
Noun
▲
A difficult (and figurative) problem or situation
quicksand
crisis
catastrophe
disaster
emergency
plight
predicament
dilemma
mess
trouble
calamity
extremity
fiasco
mire
quagmire
quandary
conundrum
setback
tragedy
complication
difficulty
jam
problem
strait
tribulation
misadventure
misfortune
scrape
woe
hot water
sticky situation
deep water
sad state
critical situation
heavy blow
tricky situation
difficult situation
problematic situation
unfortunate situation
awkward situation
spot of bother
tight situation
pickle
fix
bind
hole
tight spot
tight corner
spot
impasse
distress
muddle
corner
pinch
exigency
imbroglio
stew
rabbit hole
adversity
hardship
box
cataclysm
rattrap
swamp
sticky wicket
hell on earth
ticklish situation
tinderbox
perplexity
jackpot
hell
juncture
bad news
hard times
sorry condition
desperate straits
train wreck
fine kettle of fish
crunch
crossroads
head
clutch
conjuncture
Dunkirk
upheaval
turmoil
pass
urgency
blow
havoc
debacle
trauma
entanglement
puzzle
meltdown
depression
mishap
disorder
pressure
drama
shambles
horror
zero hour
spot of trouble
embarrassment
worst-case scenario
boiling point
crunch time
double trouble
no-win situation
bit of bother
breaking point
car crash
flash point
danger
straits
comess
chaos
disarray
failure
issue
tension
stress
crash
collapse
situation
reversal
crossroad
affliction
reverse
scourge
devastation
how-do-you-do
pretty kettle of fish
big trouble
turning point
hang-up
panic stations
apocalypse
with nowhere to turn
reversal of fortune
urgent situation
botched situation
accident
vicissitude
tangle
indigence
destitution
knot
diffict situation
extreme suffering
necessity
impediment
condition
mare's nest
squeeze
state
unforeseen circumstances
case
circumstances
troublesome situation
discomfiture
worst that could happen
worst outcome
worst case
worst possible outcome
worst comes to worst
spectacle
commotion
fuss
incident
scene
disturbance
business
circumstance
occasion
melodrama
affair
adventure
row
fracas
sensation
thrill
excitement
farce
to-do
tear-jerker
contingency
duress
exigence
jeopardy
peril
imperilment
endangerment
risk
hitch
harm's way
snag
soup
ruin
blight
confusion
whammy
shock
monstrosity
serious problem
vicious circle
bomb
shipwreck
hot potato
disorderliness
stroke of ill luck
hassle
desolation
holocaust
trial
big problem
messiness
bust
catch-22
kettle of fish
bother
double bind
mix-up
complexity
catch
uncertainty
hot spot
hot seat
web
puzzlement
matter
pitfall
net
crux
jumble
facer
controversy
mesh
snarl
morass
conflict
skein
poser
position
huge problem
bad situation
cleft stick
large difficulty
serious predicament
serious dilemma
large problem
serious complication
difficult choice
major obstacle
trap
uphill
equation
stage
stuckness
snare
potential crisis
emergency situation
involvement
toughie
toughy
situational problem
mass of problems
nuisance
damned if you do, damned if you don't
lose-lose
indecision
between a rock and a hard place
tanglement
brouhaha
enmeshment
embroilment
difficult problem
embarrassing situation
embarrassing problem
stalemate
bewilderment
source of trouble
doubt
place
thorn in the flesh
state of affairs
state of things
meshes
intricacy
noose
hiccup
gremlin
fly in the ointment
Gordian knot
rub
hornets' nest
katzenjammer
nodus
prob
stumbling block
complicated situation
soap opera
state of perplexity
state of uncertainty
delicate situation
up a tree
rigor
US
asperity
deadlock
drag
rigour
UK
jungle
rough go
maze
clutter
concern
interest
focus
contention
subject matter
theme
question
point of contention
argument
subject
topic
matter of contention
enigma
stumper
point
challenge
labyrinth
more ❯
Find more words!
Another word for
Opposite of
Meaning of
Rhymes with
Sentences with
Find word forms
Translate from English
Translate to English
Words With Friends
Scrabble
Crossword / Codeword
Words starting with
Words ending with
Words containing exactly
Words containing letters
Pronounce
Find conjugations
Find names
From Afrikaans
From Albanian
From Amharic
From Arabic
From Armenian
From Azerbaijani
From Basque
From Belarusian
From Bengali
From Bosnian
From Bulgarian
From Catalan
From Cebuano
From Chichewa
From Chinese
From Corsican
From Croatian
From Czech
From Danish
From Dutch
From Esperanto
From Estonian
From Farsi
From Filipino
From Finnish
From French
From Frisian
From Galician
From Georgian
From German
From Greek
From Gujarati
From Haitian Creole
From Hausa
From Hebrew
From Hindi
From Hmong
From Hungarian
From Icelandic
From Igbo
From Indonesian
From Irish
From Italian
From Japanese
From Javanese
From Kannada
From Kazakh
From Khmer
From Korean
From Kurdish
From Kyrgyz
From Lao
From Latin
From Latvian
From Lithuanian
From Luxembourgish
From Macedonian
From Malagasy
From Malay
From Malayalam
From Maltese
From Maori
From Marathi
From Mongolian
From Burmese
From Nepali
From Norwegian
From Polish
From Portuguese
From Punjabi
From Romanian
From Russian
From Samoan
From Scots Gaelic
From Serbian
From Sesotho
From Shona
From Sinhala
From Slovak
From Slovenian
From Somali
From Spanish
From Sundanese
From Swahili
From Swedish
From Tajik
From Tamil
From Telugu
From Thai
From Turkish
From Ukrainian
From Urdu
From Uzbek
From Vietnamese
From Welsh
From Xhosa
From Yiddish
From Yoruba
From Zulu
To Afrikaans
To Albanian
To Amharic
To Arabic
To Armenian
To Azerbaijani
To Basque
To Belarusian
To Bengali
To Bosnian
To Bulgarian
To Catalan
To Cebuano
To Chichewa
To Chinese
To Corsican
To Croatian
To Czech
To Danish
To Dutch
To Esperanto
To Estonian
To Farsi
To Filipino
To Finnish
To French
To Frisian
To Galician
To Georgian
To German
To Greek
To Gujarati
To Haitian Creole
To Hausa
To Hebrew
To Hindi
To Hmong
To Hungarian
To Icelandic
To Igbo
To Indonesian
To Irish
To Italian
To Japanese
To Javanese
To Kannada
To Kazakh
To Khmer
To Korean
To Kurdish
To Kyrgyz
To Lao
To Latin
To Latvian
To Lithuanian
To Luxembourgish
To Macedonian
To Malagasy
To Malay
To Malayalam
To Maltese
To Maori
To Marathi
To Mongolian
To Burmese
To Nepali
To Norwegian
To Polish
To Portuguese
To Punjabi
To Romanian
To Russian
To Samoan
To Scots Gaelic
To Serbian
To Sesotho
To Shona
To Sinhala
To Slovak
To Slovenian
To Somali
To Spanish
To Sundanese
To Swahili
To Swedish
To Tajik
To Tamil
To Telugu
To Thai
To Turkish
To Ukrainian
To Urdu
To Uzbek
To Vietnamese
To Welsh
To Xhosa
To Yiddish
To Yoruba
To Zulu
English
French
Afrikaans Word
Albanian Word
Arabic Word
Bengali Word
Chinese Word
Croatian Word
Czech Word
Danish Word
Dutch Word
English Word
Finnish Word
French Word
German Word
Greek Word
Hindi Word
Hungarian Word
Icelandic Word
Indonesian Word
Italian Word
Japanese Word
Korean Word
Latin Word
Malay Word
Malayalam Word
Marathi Word
Nepali Word
Norwegian Word
Polish Word
Portuguese Word
Romanian Word
Russian Word
Serbian Word
Slovak Word
Spanish Word
Swahili Word
Swedish Word
Tamil Word
Telugu Word
Thai Word
Turkish Word
Ukrainian Word
Uzbek Word
Vietnamese Word
Welsh Word
All words
2-letter words
3-letter words
4-letter words
5-letter words
6-letter words
7-letter words
8-letter words
9-letter words
10-letter words
11-letter words
12-letter words
13-letter words
14-letter words
Plural of
Singular of
Past tense of
Present tense of
Verb for
Adjective for
Adverb for
Noun for
Meaning of name
Origin of name
Names meaning
Names starting with
Names of origin
dire straits
Use * for blank tiles (max 2)
Advanced Search
Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces
Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder
See Also
What is the opposite of dire straits
?
Sentences with the word dire straits
Words that rhyme with dire straits
What is the plural of dire straits
?
Use our
Synonym Finder
Nearby Words
dirge
dirge-ale
dirgeful
dirgelike
dirges
dirham
direst
direr
dire poverty
dire performance
direnesses
direness
Find Synonyms
dire straits
go
Word Tools
Finders & Helpers
Apps
More
Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024
