dire 
(dīr)
(dīr)adj. dir·er, dir·est
1. Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous: a dire economic forecast; dire threats.
2. Urgent; desperate: in dire need; dire poverty.
[Latin dīrus, fearsome, terrible; akin to Greek deinos.]
direly adv.
direness n.
- interchangeable
- interchangeableness
- interchangeably
- interchanger
- intercity
- interclavicle
- interclavicular
- intercoastal
- intercollegiate
- intercolumniation
- intercom
- intercommunal
- intercommunicate
- intercommunication
- intercommunicative
- intercommunion
- interconnect
- interconnectable
- interconnectedness
- interconnectible
- interconnection
- intercontinental
- interconversion
- interconvert
- interconvertibility