dire

Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.

dire omens

Đồng nghĩa: foreboding, inauspicious, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous, divine, fatal, foreboding, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicate, inauspicious, nefastous, omenic, ominous, brooding, portentous, presageful, presagious, prodigious, sinister, star-crossed, sullen

Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.

dire need (of)

Đồng nghĩa: acute, exigent, acute, bad, clamant, crying, dire, sore, exigent, imperious, instant, rash, severe, pressing, pressive, urgent

Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.

dire consequences;  to be in dire straits

Đồng nghĩa: bleak, gloomy, cheerless, comfortless, bleak, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gray, gloomsome, gloomy, grim, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wintry, woeful

(informal)Bad in quality, awful, terrible.

His dire blunder allowed her to checkmate him with her next move.

Đồng nghĩa: foul, lousy, abysmal, atrocious, awful, bad, chronic, coarse, corny, crap, crapalicious, crappy, crummy, deityforsaken, dire, disagreeable, dismal, dogshit, dreadful, fifth-rate, foul, fourth-rate, godawful, hellish, hideous, hopeless, horrendous, horrid, horrible, horrific, inadequate, incompetent, inelegant, intolerable, inferior, lackluster, loathsome, lousy, miserable, naff, negative, odious, ordinary, pathetic, peak, piss-poor, rotten, rubbish, shitawful, shitty, sixth-rate, sloppy, subpar, terrible, unfavorable, wack

(fantasy, gaming) Ferocious and of intimidating appearance, like a dire wolf.