dire (adj.)
- abominable
- apocalyptic
- appalling
- arrant
- astounding
- atrocious
- awe-inspiring
- awesome
- awful
- bad
- baleful
- baneful
- base
- beastly
- black
- blameworthy
- boding
- brutal
- burning
- calamitous
- cataclysmal
- cataclysmic
- catastrophic
- clamant
- clamorous
- contemptible
- critical
- crucial
- crying
- dark
- deplorable
- depressed
- depressing
- desperate
- despicable
- destructive
- detestable
- direful
- disastrous
- disgusting
- distressing
- dread
- dreaded
- dreadful
- dreary
- egregious
- enormous
- evil
- exigent
- fatal
- fateful
- fell
- fetid
- filthy
- flagrant
- foreboding
- formidable
- foul
- frightful
- fulsome
- ghastly
- ghoulish
- gloomy
- grievous
- grim
- grisly
- gross
- gruesome
- hapless
- hateful
- heartbreaking
- heinous
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrid
- horrific
- horrifying
- ill
- ill-fated
- ill-omened
- ill-starred
- imperative
- importunate
- inauspicious
- infamous
- instant
- lamentable
- loathsome
- lousy
- lowering
- luckless
- macabre
- menacing
- monstrous
- morbid
- nasty
- nefarious
- noisome
- notorious
- obnoxious
- odious
- offensive
- ominous
- outrageous
- pitiable
- pitiful
- portentous
- rank
- redoubtable
- regrettable
- reprehensible
- repulsive
- rotten
- ruinous
- sad
- scandalous
- scurvy
- shabby
- shameful
- shocking
- shoddy
- sinister
- somber
- sordid
- squalid
- terrible
- terrific
- threatening
- tragic
- tremendous
- unblessed
- unclean
- underprivileged
- unfavorable
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- unlucky
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- unspeakable
- untoward
- urgent
- vile
- villainous
- woeful
- worst
- worthless
- wretched
Arms on armour clashing bray'd
Horrible discord, and the madding wheels
Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise
Of conflict.
