Dire vs. Dismal

Direadjective

Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.

Direadjective

Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.

Direadjective

Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal

Direadjective

(informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.

Direadjective

Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.

Direadjective

Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.

Direadjective

fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless;

Direadjective

causing fear or dread or terror;

Direadjective

extremely serious or urgent

Direadjective

(of a warning or threat) presaging disaster

Direadjective

of a very poor quality

Dismaladjective

Disappointingly inadequate.

Dismaladjective

Gloomy and bleak.

Dismaladjective

Depressing.

Dismaladjective

Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.

Dismaladjective

Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.

Dismaladjective

depressing in character or appearance;

Dismaladjective

causing dejection;