adj.可怕的，严重的
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
dire (adjective)1.
a) horror - exciting dire suffering
b) - dismal oppressive dire days
2.
warning of disaster - a dire forecast
3.
a) desperately - urgent dire need
b) - extreme dire poverty
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
dire (adjective)1.
being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come
SYNONYMS:
baleful, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, minatory, portentous, sinister, threateningRELATED WORDS:
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dim, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [], elegiac ( elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, godforsaken, gray ( grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, somber ( sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched; discouraging, disheartening, hopeless, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious; ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, troubled, unfortunate, unlucky; evil, malign, malignantNEAR ANTONYMS:
auspicious, benign, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious, prosperous2.
causing fear
SYNONYMS:
alarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, shocking, spine-chilling, terrible, terrifyingRELATED WORDS:
daunting, demoralizing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, startling, threatening, troubling, trying, unnerving; bone-chilling, creepy, eerie ( eery), weird; appalling, atrocious, awful, grisly, gruesome ( grewsome), hideous, horrid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarishNEAR ANTONYMS:
calming, comforting, consoling, inviting, lulling, pacifying, quieting, reassuring, relaxing, soothing, tranquilizing ( tranquillizing); nonintimidating, nonthreatening3.
needing immediate attention
SYNONYMS:
burning, clamant, compelling, critical, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, instant, necessitous, pressing, urgentRELATED WORDS:
demanding, extreme, immediate, insistent, intense, overriding; crucial, desperate, grave, life-and-death ( life-or-death), serious, severe, vital; dangerous, explosive, hazardous, perilous, precarious, unstableNEAR ANTONYMS:
incidental, low-pressure, minor, negligible, trivial, unimportant; nonthreatening, safe, stable4.
causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer
SYNONYMS:
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich, elegiac ( elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, glum, godforsaken, gray ( grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber ( sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretchedRELATED WORDS:
blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woeful; dim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsetting; desperate, hopeless, pessimistic; lamentable, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful; colorless, drab, dull; dour, grim, lowering ( louring), lowery ( loury), menacing, negative, oppressive, threateningNEAR ANTONYMS:
blithe, blithesome, buoyant, gay, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, mirthful; encouraging, hopeful, optimistic; lighthearted, lightsome