Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous. / Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing. / Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.

Fearful, terrible.

The state or quality of being dire.

In a dire manner

Quality of being direful.

plural of direness

(law) The preliminary phase of a jury trial in which the jurors are examined and selected.

An extinct canine (Canis dirus) from the Pleistocene epoch, heavier and slightly larger than the modern grey wolf. / (fantasy) Synonym of warg (a larger, more vicious, wilder, wolf)

A difficult position.

Misspelling of dire straits.