Related Words for dire

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critical
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Adjective, Adjective
desperate
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Adjective, Adjective
awful
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Adjective, Adjective
fearsome
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Adjective, Adjective
horrendous
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Adjective, Adjective
dreadful
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Adjective, Adjective
horrific
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Adjective, Adjective
frightening
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Adjective, Adjective
alarming
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Adjective, Adjective
dread
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Adjective, Adjective, Noun
terrible
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Noun, Adjective
fearful
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Adjective, Adjective
grim
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Adjective
bleak
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Adjective
calamitous
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Adjective
dismal
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Adjective
perilous
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Adjective
ominous
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Adjective
situation
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Noun
severe
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Adjective
precarious
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Adjective
catastrophe
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Noun
worsening
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Verb
horrible
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Adjective
horrid
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Adjective
nightmarish
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Adjective
troubling
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Adjective
frightful
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Adjective
appalling
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Adjective
disastrous
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Adjective
woeful
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Adjective
ghastly
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Adjective
worse
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Adjective
horrifying
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Adjective
gloomy
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Adjective
serious
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Adjective
straits
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Noun
worrisome
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Adjective
lamentable
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Adjective
predicament
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Noun
portent
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Noun
abysmal
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Adjective
peril
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Noun
wretched
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Adjective
devastating
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Adjective
hopeless
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Adjective
pitiable
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Adjective
grievous
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Adjective
tragic
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Adjective
atrocious
x/x
Adjective
pitiful
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Adjective
uncertain
x/x
Adjective
imminent
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Adjective
drastic
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Adjective
portentous
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Adjective
hideous
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Adjective
cataclysmic
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Adjective
terrifying
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Adjective
vexing
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Adjective
unpromising
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Adjective
deplorable
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Adjective
acute
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Adjective
harrowing
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Noun
deteriorating
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Verb
unfortunate
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Adjective
miserable
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Adjective
inescapable
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Adjective
apocalyptic
xxx/x
Noun
crisis
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Noun
calamity
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Noun
hellish
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Adjective
harsh
/
Adjective
unpleasant
x/x
Adjective
danger
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Noun
consequences
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Noun
fraught
/
Noun
damning
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Adjective
ramifications
xxx/x
Noun
dangerous
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Adjective
doleful
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Adjective
glum
/
Noun
dramatic
x/x
Adjective
deadly
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Adjective
deathly
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Adjective
problematical
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Adjective
adverse
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Adjective
gruesome
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Adjective
debilitating
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Adjective
rosier
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Name
immediate
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Adjective
urgent
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Adjective
unavoidable
xx/xx
Adjective
heinous
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Adjective
irremediable
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Adjective
scary
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Adjective
unforeseen
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Adjective
intolerable
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Adjective
exigent
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Adjective
dispiriting
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Adjective
aggravating
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Adjective
depressing
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Adjective
unimaginable
xx/xxx
Adjective
stark
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Name
dreary
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Adjective
shocking
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Adjective
dilemma
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Noun
grave
/
Noun
ruinous
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Adjective
extreme
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Adjective
inevitable
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Adjective
foreboding
x/x
Noun
menacing
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Adjective
doomsday
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Noun
sore
/
Adjective
black
/
Name
evil
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Noun
sinister
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Adjective
forbidding
x/x
Verb
rueful
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Adjective
dystopian
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Adjective
cursed
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Verb
untoward
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Adjective
shrewd
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Adjective
poisonous
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Adjective
dicey
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Name
malign
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Adjective
diabolic
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Adjective
diabolical
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Adjective
baleful
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Adjective
dead
/
Adjective
detrimental
xx/x
Adjective
inimical
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Adjective
malevolent
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Adjective
doomed
/
Verb
unlucky
x/x
Adjective
negative
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Adjective
ugly
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Adjective
censorious
/x/x
Adjective
waste
/
Noun
treacherous
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Adjective
straights
/
Noun
warnings
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Noun
prophesies
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Noun
predictions
x/x
Noun
poverty
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Noun
premonitions
xx/x
Noun
emergency
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Noun
need
/
Noun
abhorrent
x/x
Adjective
abject
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
abominable
x/xxx
Adjective
absolute
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Adjective, Noun
absolutely
xx/x
Adverb
agonizing
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Adjective, Noun
arduous
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Adjective
astonishing
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Adjective
astounding
x/x
Adjective
awesome
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Adjective, Noun
awkward
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun
big
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
bitter
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
burdensome
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Adjective
challenging
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Adjective, Noun
chilling
/x
Adjective, Noun
compelling
x/x
Adjective, Noun
contemptuous
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Adjective
crippling
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Adjective, Noun
cruel
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
damaging
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Adjective, Noun
dark
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
daunting
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Adjective, Noun
degraded
x/x
Adjective
deleterious
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Adjective
despairing
x/x
Adjective, Noun
destined
/x
Adjective
destructive
x/x
Adjective
difficult
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Adjective, Verb
dim
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
disadvantageous
xxx/x
Adjective
distraught
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Adjective
distress
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Noun, Verb
disturbing
x/x
Adjective
drama
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Noun
dusky
/x
Adjective, Noun
eerie
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Adjective, Noun
egregious
x/x
Adjective
enormous
x/x
Adjective
exigency
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Noun
fatal
/x
Adjective, Noun
fateful
/x
Adjective
foreseeable
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Adjective
formidable
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Adjective
fragile
/x
Adjective, Noun
frustrating
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Adjective
glaring
/x
Adjective, Noun
grand
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Noun, Adjective
great
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
gross
/
Adjective, Name, Verb
hard
/
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
harmful
/x
Adjective
heavy
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
huge
/
Adjective
imperative
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Adjective, Noun
implacable
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Adjective
inclement
x/x
Adjective
large
/
Adjective, Noun, Adverb
major
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
momentous
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Adjective
murky
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Adjective
nefarious
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Adjective
onerous
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Adjective
overwhelming
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Adjective, Noun
painful
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Adjective
pathetic
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Adjective
peremptory
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Adjective, Noun
pernicious
x/x
Adjective
poignant
/x
Adjective
poor
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
pressing
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Adjective, Noun
regrettable
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Adjective
relentless
x/x
Adjective
ruthless
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Adjective
sad
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
say
/
Verb, Noun, Adverb
sharp
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Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
sombre
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
spooky
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Adjective
tell
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Verb, Noun
terrific
x/x
Adjective
tiresome
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Adjective
tough
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
traumatic
x/x
Adjective, Noun
tremendous
x/x
Adjective
unacceptable
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Adjective, Noun
unforeseeable
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Adjective
unholy
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Adjective
unrelenting
xx/x
Adjective
unspeakable
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Adjective, Noun
vicious
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Adjective, Noun
milestone
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Noun, Verb
no
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Noun, Adverb, Adjective
bulletproof
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Adjective, Verb
die
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Verb, Noun
sorta
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Adverb