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(Note: See dire as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dire)

adjective:  Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
adjective:  Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
adjective:  Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
adjective:  (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
noun:  A surname.
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