- Types Of Speech
- You can use dire as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Dire
- A 1 syllables adjective satellite and 4 letters with the letters d, e, i, and r, 2 consonants, 2 vowels and 1 syllables with the middle letters ir. Dire starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel with the starting letters d, di, dir, and the ending characters are e, re, ire, ..
- Definition
- Causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "
- Origin/Roots
- Latin
- School Grade
- Dire is set as a grade eight word that starts with d, ends with e, 1 syllables, 2 vowels and 4 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is dire a scrabble word? A 5 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Dire in Pig Latin is said as "ireday or iredway".
- Unigram
- d | i | r | e
- Bigram
- di | ir | re
- Trigram
- dir | ire
- Quadrigram
- dire
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- causing fear or dread or terror;
"the awful war";
"an awful risk";
"dire news";
"a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked";
"the dread presence of the headmaster";
"polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was";
"a dreadful storm";
" - fraught with extreme danger;
nearly hopeless;
"a desperate illness";
"on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall;
"a dire emergency"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aberrant | one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group |
| Abhorrent | offensive to the mind "an abhorrent deed" "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee" "morally repugnant customs" "repulsive behavior" "the most repulsive character in recent novels" |
| Abnormal | much greater than the normal "abnormal profits" "abnormal ambition" |
| Abominable | exceptionally bad or displeasing "atrocious taste" "abominable workmanship" "an awful voice" "dreadful manners" "a painful performance" "terrible handwriting" "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" |
| Absolute | something that is conceived to be absolute something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control "no mortal being can influence the absolute" |
| Acute | a mark ('') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation |
| Acute Accent | |
| Adverse | in an opposing direction "adverse currents" "a contrary wind" |
| Agonising | extremely painful |
| Agonizing | extremely painful |
View all cognitive synonyms for Dire
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ride | a journey in a vehicle driven by someone else "he took the family for a drive in his new car" |
| Reid | Scottish philosopher of common sense who opposed the ideas of David Hume (1710-1796) |
| Dire | causing fear or dread or terror "the awful war" "an awful risk" "dire news" "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked" "the dread presence of the headmaster" "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was" "a dreadful storm" " |
| Ired |
View English words with the unique letters used in dire. Words With The Letters Deir
| Name | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Diretha | No | Yes |
| Diren | Yes | No |
| Nadire | Yes | Yes |
| Kadire | Yes | Yes |
| Direm | Yes | No |
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alarming | causing alarm or fear |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Credit (6 letters) | 9 +4 | 10 +5 | cirdet | ||
| Drive (5 letters) | 9 +4 | 10 +5 | drive | ||
| Stride (6 letters) | 7 +2 | 7 +2 | stride | ||
| Ride (4 letters) | 5 | 5 | ride | ||
| Eider (5 letters) | 6 +1 | 6 +1 | eider | ||
| Diver (5 letters) | 9 +4 | 10 +5 | drive | ||
| Cervid (6 letters) | 12 +7 | 14 +9 | cervid | ||
| Deicer (6 letters) | 9 +4 | 10 +5 | deicer | ||
| Dibber (6 letters) | 11 +6 | 13 +8 | dibber | ||
| Dicer (5 letters) | 8 +3 | 9 +4 | dicer | ||
| Driver (6 letters) | 10 +5 | 11 +6 | deirrv | ||
| Drier (5 letters) | 6 +1 | 6 +1 | drier | ||
| Birdie (6 letters) | 9 +4 | 10 +5 | birdie | ||
| Desire (6 letters) | 7 +2 | 7 +2 | desire | ||
| Rider (5 letters) | 6 +1 | 6 +1 | drier | ||
| Tirade (6 letters) | 7 +2 | 7 +2 | tirade | ||
| Cider (5 letters) | 8 +3 | 9 +4 | dicer | ||
| Raider (6 letters) | 7 +2 | 7 +2 | raider | ||
| Weird (5 letters) | 9 +4 | 9 +4 | deirw | ||
| Bidder (6 letters) | 10 +5 | 11 +6 | bidder | ||
| Birder (6 letters) | 9 +4 | 10 +5 | birder | ||
| Bride (5 letters) | 8 +3 | 9 +4 | bride | ||
| Weirdy (6 letters) | 13 +8 | 12 +7 | weirdy | ||
| Dearie (6 letters) | 7 +2 | 7 +2 | dearie | ||
| Yardie (6 letters) | 10 +5 | 9 +4 | yardie |
Dire Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With E
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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