Found 3 items, similar to dire.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: dire dahsyat, ngeri
English → English (WordNet) Definition: dire dire adj 1: fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; “a desperate illness”; “on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel”- G.C.Marshall; “a dire emergency” [syn: desperate] 2: causing fear or dread or terror; “the awful war”; “an awful risk”; “dire news”; “a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked”; “the dread presence of the headmaster”; “polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was”; “a dreadful storm”; “a fearful howling”; “horrendous explosions shook the city”; “a terrible curse” [syn: awful, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Dire Dire \Dire\ (d[imac]r), a. [Compar. Direr (d[imac]r"[~e]r); superl. Direst.] [L. dirus; of uncertain origin.] 1. Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens. [1913 Webster] 2. Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable. [1913 Webster] Dire was the tossing, deep the groans. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire. --Milton. [1913 Webster]