English-Portuguese translations for dire

• adoentado
• horrendo
• horrível
• mal-agoirado
• terrível
  A situação no que diz respeito à segurança continua a ser tão terrível como antes. The security situation is as dire as it was before.
  Nos territórios ocupados, a situação humanitária continua terrível para os Palestinianos. In the occupied territories, the humanitarian situation for Palestinians remains dire.

Definition of dire

• Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous
• Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing
• Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal
• Bad in quality, awful, terrible

Examples

• dire omens
• dire need
• dire consequences; to be in dire straits
• His dire mistake allowed her to checkmate him with her next move.

Related words

• directions
• director
• direction
• directly
• direct
• directory
• directionless
• directional
• directive