dire Synonyms

awful terrible desperate horrific dreadful grim fearful deplorable critical urgent grave pressing tragic direful ruinous frightening fearsome dread severe serious extreme atrocious horrible dreaded appalling horrendous alarming calamitous wretched catastrophic disastrous portentous instant planet-struck plutonian redoubtable inauspicious precarious importunate morbid impendent immane maleficial perilous minacious minatory miserable lethiferous lamentable mortal