Definitions for DIRE

DIRE dire

Spelling: [dahyuh r]
IPA: /daɪər/

Dire is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in DIRE (deir).

Definitions for DIRE

adjective

  1. causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible:
  2. indicating trouble, disaster, misfortune, or the like:
  3. urgent; desperate:

Origin of DIRE

First recorded in 1560-70, dire is from the Latin word dīrus fearful, unlucky

Examples for DIRE

We cheered, thinking some dire calamity had befallen the enemy.

In fact, no word except that of dire disaster had come to hand.

To have married a girl who cared only for his money; that would have been dire enough.

So, what happens if nothing in his training has replicated such a dire condition?

Kim Jung-un clearly recognizes that Hollywood and American popular culture in general constitute a dire threat.

The present, so, was more than any possible future, how dire soever it might be.

“Driving on both sides, getting around cars, letting them know I was in a dire emergency,” Johnson says.

The dire fatalism that dominated the discourse then is gone, replaced largely with a practiced apathy.

The results of that rash decision, the most dire of which has been the rise of ISIS, are now plain for us to see.

But it is a dire necessity, and it is impossible to avoid or to turn it.

Word Value for DIRE
Scrable

5

Words with friends

5

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