Synonyms of dire

1 Syllable

dread

2 Syllables

pressing, clamant, harmful, nagging, dreadful, awful, tragic, crucial, doomful, instant, grabber, painful, ruinous, heaton, smarting, somber, drastic, mortal, dreader, wreckful, grievous, heat-on, loury

3 Syllables

on-the-spot, insistent, split-second, tumbledown, heartbreaking, death-dealing, ominous, blackhearted, nightmarish, hellfire, horrendous, unlucky, threatening, disastrous, dolorous, terrible, baleful, traumatic, appalling, ill-boding, impendent, sinister, requiring, hurry-up, lowery, godawful

4 Syllables

lamentable, deplorable, destructive, calamitous, malificent, dolesome, dolorific, precursive, ill-omened, unspeakable, perseverant, formidable, minatory, climactical, lethiferous, inauspicious, unpromising, high-priority, regrettable

5 Syllables

undescribable, fire-and-brimstone, premonitory, comminatory, inexpressible, indefinable, extirpative, unutterable

6 Syllables

annihilative, eradicative, incommunicable