Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: dire
- Amharic: ድሬ
- Arabic: وخيمة
- Azerbaijani: kəskin
- Bashkir: киҫкен
- Belarusian: востра
- Bulgarian: спешно
- Bengali: অকূল
- Bosnian: strašne
- Catalan: dire
- Cebuano: dire
- Czech: zoufalé
- Welsh: enbyd
- Danish: dire
- German: dire
- Greek: τρομερή
- Esperanto: ekstrema
- Spanish: dire
- Estonian: dire
- Basque: dire
- Persian: وخیم
- Finnish: dire
- French: terrible
- Irish: dire
- Scottish Gaelic: dire
- Galician: dire
- Gujarati: ભયાનક
- Hebrew: נורא
- Hindi: सख्त
- Croatian: hitno
- Haitian: tèt chaje
- Hungarian: szörnyű
- Armenian: սուր
- Indonesian: mengerikan
- Icelandic: skelfilegur
- Italian: dire
- Japanese: dire
- Javanese: dire
- Georgian: dire
- Kazakh: өткір
- Khmer: ធ្ងន់ធ្ងរ
- Kannada: ಉಗ್ರ
- Korean: dire
- Kyrgyz: курч
- Latin: dira
- Luxembourgish: dire
- Lao: ຮ້າຍຂາດ
- Lithuanian: baisios
- Latvian: dire
- Malagasy: ratsy
- Mari: пӱсӧ
- Maori: dire
- Macedonian: очајна
- Malayalam: കടുത്ത
- Mongolian: хүндэрчээ
- Marathi: भयानक
- Hill Mari: пӹсӹн
- Malay: mengerikan
- Maltese: dire
- Burmese: ပ္စက္ညွဥ္း
- Nepali: कठिन
- Dutch: dire
- Norwegian: dire
- Punjabi: dire
- Papiamento: de
- Polish: ostro
- Portuguese: extrema
- Romanian: dire
- Russian: остро
- Sinhalese: දැඩි
- Slovak: dire
- Slovenian: dire
- Albanian: të tmerrshme
- Serbian: акутно
- Sundanese: dire
- Swedish: dire
- Swahili: dire
- Tamil: டயர்
- Telugu: డైర్
- Tajik: гирифтаанду
- Thai: ทุกข์
- Tagalog: katakut-takot
- Turkish: korkunç
- Tatar: кискен
- Udmurt: лэчыт
- Ukrainian: гостро
- Urdu: سنگین
- Uzbek: dahshatli
- Vietnamese: dire
- Xhosa: dire
- Yiddish: דייר
- Chinese: 可怕的
Synonyms, close and similar words for dire
- horrific
- frightful
- horrid
- fearful
- appalling
- gruesome
- terrible
- grisly
- awful
- ghastly
- fearsome
- hideous
- formidable
- dreaded
- desperate
- wretched
- threatening
- alarming
- frightening
- dreadful
- dread
- dark
- dreary
- grim
- gloomy
- somber
- sombre
- baleful
- morbid
- sullen
- drear
- doomy
- lugubrious
- solemn
- morose
- sepulchral
- disconsolate
- scary
- horrendous
- shocking
- horrible
- ominous
- sinister
- redoubtable
- direful
- menacing
- inauspicious
- portentous
- bleak
- severe
- critical
- urgent
- acute
- burning
- pressing
- glum
- tenebrous
- dismal
- murky
- cheerless
- forbidding