dire /dīr/

1. Dreadful
2. Extremely calamitous
3. Urgent
4. Portentous

direˈful adjective (poetic)

direˈfully adverb

direˈfulness noun

direˈness noun

dire wolf noun

Canis dirus, a large extinct wolf of the Pleistocene epoch

• bearer bond
• bearer bonds
• bearers
• bearer securities
• bearer security
• bear fruit
• bear garden
• bear gardens
• bear hard
• bear hard upon
• bear heavily upon
• bear hug
• bear hugs
• bearing
• bearing cloth
• bearing cloths
• bearing rein
• bearing reins
• bearings
• bear in hand
• bear in mind
• bear in upon
• bearish
• bearishly
• bearishness