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direr

adjective

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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