1. (superl.) Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.

2. (superl.) Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.

abominable apocalyptic appalling arrant astounding atrocious awe-inspiring awesome awful bad badly off baleful baneful base beastly beneath contempt black blameworthy bodeful boding brutal burning calamitous cataclysmal cataclysmic catastrophic clamant clamorous climacteric contemptible critical crucial crying dark deplorable depressed depressing desperate despicable destructive detestable direful disastrous disgusting distressing donsie doomful dread dreaded dreadful dreary egregious enormous evil evil-starred exigent fatal fateful fell fetid filthy flagrant foreboding formidable fortuneless foul frightful fulsome funest ghastly ghoulish gloomy grievous grim grisly gross gruesome hapless hateful heartbreaking heinous hideous horrendous horrible horrid horrific horrifying ill ill off ill-boding ill-fated ill-omened ill-starred imperative importunate in adverse circumstances inauspicious infamous instant lamentable loathsome lousy lowering luckless macabre menacing monstrous morbid nasty nefarious noisome notorious obnoxious odious of evil portent offensive ominous out of luck outrageous pitiable pitiful planet-struck portending portentous rank redoubtable regrettable reprehensible repulsive rotten ruinous sad scandalous schlock schrecklich scurvy shabby shameful shocking shoddy short of luck sinister somber sordid squalid star-crossed terrible terrific threatening too bad tragic tremendous unblessed unclean underprivileged unfavorable unfortunate unhappy unlucky unpromising unpropitious unprosperous unprovidential unspeakable untoward urgent vile villainous woeful worst worthless wreckful wretched