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Translate direness from English to French

Summary

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dire:
- aigu; perçant; pénétrant; ce qui devient de plus en plus pénible
Wiktionary:
- dire → sinistre, extrême, funeste
- dire → terrible

English

Detailed Translations for direness from English to French

dire:

dire adj

dire (grinding; piercing)
aigu; perçant; pénétrant; ce qui devient de plus en plus pénible
- aigu adj
- perçant adj
- pénétrant adj
- ce qui devient de plus en plus pénible adj

Translation Matrix for dire:

Adjective	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	desperate
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
aigu	dire; grinding; piercing	acute; burdensome; cutting; galling; heavy; injurious; insulting; intense; irksome; keen; massive; nipping; offending; offensive; penetrating; piercing; pointed; rasping; sharp; sharp-edged; shrill; snappy; vehement; violent
ce qui devient de plus en plus pénible	dire; grinding; piercing
perçant	dire; grinding; piercing	cutting; nipping; penetrating; piercing; rasping; sharp; sharp-edged; shrill; snappy
pénétrant	dire; grinding; piercing	penetrating; piercing; rasping; shrill

Related Words for "dire":

direness, direr, direst, direly

Synonyms for "dire":

desperate; critical
awful; direful; dread; dreaded; dreadful; fearful; fearsome; frightening; horrendous; horrific; terrible; alarming

Related Definitions for "dire":

fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless¹
- a dire emergency¹

Wiktionary Translations for dire:

dire

adjective

evil in great degree
- dire → sinistre; extrême; funeste

dire

adjective

Qui est tout à fait au bout, tout à fait le dernier.
- extrême → extreme; abject; dire; dramatic; drastic; gross; ultra

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• dire	→ terrible	↔ vreselijk — bijzonder erg, schrikwekkend

External Machine Translations:

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University