warnings of dire consequences that often don’t come truediredire /daɪə $ daɪr/ ●○○ adjective 
warnings of dire consequences that often don’t come true The country is in dire need of food aid. The situation looked dire.2be in dire straits to be in an extremely difficult or serious situation: Everyone agrees the sport is in dire straits.3dire warning/prediction/forecast a warning about something terrible that will happen in the future: Last night there were dire warnings of civil war.
WORD ORIGINdire
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin dirusEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The situation doesn't seem as dire as you described it.
- That too often meant that jobs went abroad to places with very low wages and dire standards of living.
- The conditions may sound wonderful, but they can have dire consequences.
- The overwhelming impression left by the survey is one of dire poverty.
- The threats were dire enough to make the Republicans look reckless when they refused to budge.
- Usually these reports concentrate on prophecies of a forthcoming Armageddon but many also describe a dire contemporary situation.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY warnings of dire consequences that often don’t come true The country is in dire need of food aid.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The firm is now in dire financial straits.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
warnings of dire consequences that often don’t come true The country is in dire need of food aid. (=very bad and damaging)· If temperatures continue to rise, it could have disastrous consequences for agriculture.
(=extremely severe)· He was shocked by the abject poverty that he saw.
(=saying that something bad will happen)· There have been some gloomy predictions about the economy recently.
(=very serious and worrying)· There is a desperate shortage of fresh water in the disaster area.
The firm is now in dire financial straits.· Our only solace is that it was just as dire on all the other formats.· The situation Clinton faces in 1996 is not nearly as dire as that which confronted Carter in 1979.· The game consisted entirely of cavalry charges end to end. As dire a Leeds win as I have seen.· But state, local and federal officials in Los Angeles said the situation was not as dire.
· We didn't make Abisko, chickening out as the weather worsened and the forecasts began to sound even more dire.· The other challenge was perhaps more dire.· Carried up to the Governor's House, in much physical pain, his mental pain proved to be more dire.· In Florida, the situation is more dire.· Screen acting doesn't get much more dire than this.· Things grew more dire for Death Row in the fall.· And somehow, in a setting that had once been rural, it seemed yet more dire.
· But they were not so dire as to scare investors into dumping government bonds.· He said it could follow an incident so dire that the mind had to block it out, sometimes along with other things.· There's no situation so dire that people who love each other can't see it through.
NOUN· As a result, at least some of the Bill's dire consequences were mitigated.· Both suggest, either by statement or implication, that Buchanan is an extremist and warn of dire consequences to his nomination.· The conditions may sound wonderful, but they can have dire consequences.· Most came to realize that leading such an imbalanced life led to dire consequences.· John Gibson highlights the regressive aspects of recent local government financial reform, and predicts dire consequences for the urban poor.· He also warned of dire consequences such as hyper-inflation if the country failed to maintain a unified budget and a co-ordinated fiscal policy.· The sweep into Putumayo promises equally dire consequences.· Publicly the banks have suggested that there could be dire consequences for the City should the deals be ruled illegal.
· Good shape despite the dire forecasts still being made by much of the business world?· The most dire forecasts say rising mercury on Earth could bring about both devastating floods and droughts.· That was the rift that grabbed headlines late in 1990, as a result of a dire forecast.· Take the current fascination with dire forecasts, for example.
· Feeling in dire need of fresh air, Ellie went outside into the grounds.· She had helped me in my direst need.· But many of them are in dire need of repair.· There is a dire need to encourage juniors into academic obstetrics and gynaecology.· But the passing over of Neil Back leaves the Lions without a commodity of which they could find themselves in dire need.
· Grandmothers, on whose distressed faces the direst poverty was written, raised their arms in greeting.· The overwhelming impression left by the survey is one of dire poverty.· The youngsters are living in dire poverty in their home country.
· The crisis has unsettled financial markets and brought dire predictions of revolution or civil war from some politicians.· He was walking in spite of all those specialists and their dire predictions.· When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction, one has to sit up and take notice.· He derived, so far as I could tell, not the slightest satisfaction from seeing his most dire predictions fulfilled.
· This dire situation exists despite a welter of management plans, royalties, taxes, and fees.· When it comes to day-to-day operations, the increasingly dire situation cries out for hard-nosed decisions and solid business management.
· For those in truly dire straits, bankruptcy is sometimes the only option.· The result is a society that was in dire straits because its cannibalism turned against itself, involving even small children.· Everton, to put it bluntly, are in dire straits.· He had had little idea of the dire straits prevailing at Berwick nor that time had all but run out.
· The dire warnings of world shortages have not come to pass.· And still, where Fergie's behaviour merely offered dire warnings - Never misbehave.· Several of these additives contain dire warnings of quite nasty effects, particularly upon certain groups of susceptible persons.· The dire warning came yesterday from Stansted Airport's marketing director Colin Hobbs.· Minutes later a reprieve arrived - a dire warning to all teetotallers!
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1extremely serious or terrible: - Peggy realized what dire financial straits she was in when her husband died.
- The company is in dire financial straits.
- The team is in such dire straits they've even considered selling their three best players.
- Everton, to put it bluntly, are in dire straits.
- The result is a society that was in dire straits because its cannibalism turned against itself, involving even small children.
- He was walking in spite of all those specialists and their dire predictions.
- Take the current fascination with dire forecasts, for example.
- That was the rift that grabbed headlines late in 1990, as a result of a dire forecast.
- The dire warnings of world shortages have not come to pass.
- The crisis has unsettled financial markets and brought dire predictions of revolution or civil war from some politicians.
- The most dire forecasts say rising mercury on Earth could bring about both devastating floods and droughts.
- When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction, one has to sit up and take notice.
- Everton, to put it bluntly, are in dire straits.
- The result is a society that was in dire straits because its cannibalism turned against itself, involving even small children.
warnings of dire consequences that often don’t come true The country is in dire need of food aid. The situation looked dire.2be in dire straits to be in an extremely difficult or serious situation: Everyone agrees the sport is in dire straits.3dire warning/prediction/forecast a warning about something terrible that will happen in the future: Last night there were dire warnings of civil war.