The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word DREADFUL , but the solution may also be GRAVE which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in LA Times).
Dire crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DREADFUL | 13 % | 8 |
| SEVERE | 13 % | 6 |
| AWFUL | 13 % | 5 |
| ACUTE | 9 % | 5 |
| TRAGIC | 9 % | 6 |
| GRAVE | 9 % | 5 |
| DRASTIC | 4 % | 7 |
| BAD | 4 % | 3 |
| FUNEST | 4 % | 6 |
| GRIM | 4 % | 4 |
| FATAL | 4 % | 5 |
| TERRIBLE | 4 % | 8 |
| GRIEVOUS | 4 % | 8 |
| URGENT | 4 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Dire
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- awful
- horrendous
- dreadful
- terrible
- horrific
- direful
- desperate
- dread
- dreaded
- fearsome
- alarming
- frightening
Crossword Answer definitions
DREADFUL noun- A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
- A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
- A shocking or sensational crime.
- Full of something causing dread, whether
- Full of dread, whether
- Dreadfully.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result DREADFUL
More clues leading to the result SEVERE
- Extreme
- Like many reprimands
- Exacting
- Harsh
- Grave
- Draconian
- Dire
- Like some thunderstorms
- Like some winter weather
- in the extreme
More clues leading to the result AWFUL
- Terrible
- The pits
- Worth no stars
- Dismal
- "Yuck!"-inducing
- Rotten
- Just terrible
- Appalling
- Yucky
- Worth two thumbs down
More clues leading to the result ACUTE
- Like some accents
- Penetrating
- Perceptive
- Very distressing
- Keenly perceptive
- Kind of angle
- Intense
- Quick-sighted
- Sharp
- Like pain after getting poked
More clues leading to the result TRAGIC
- Disastrous
- Dreadful
- Very sad
- Like a Sophocles play
- Terribly sad
- Like certain flaws
- Like Hamlet
- Like "Macbeth"
- Ill-fated
- Like "Romeo and Juliet"
More clues leading to the result GRAVE
- People are dying to get there
- Pretty grim
- Serious
- Ominous
- Service area
- Mark in "vis-à-vis"
- Somber
- Zombie's "home"
- Weighty
- Accent type
More clues leading to the result DRASTIC
- Radical
- Extremely severe
- Severe, as measures
- Severe
- Like some measures
- Dire
- Extreme
- Like emergency measures
- Rigorous.
- Extreme.
More clues leading to the result BAD
- Adverse
- Below standard
- Michael Jackson smash
- Not good
- "___ Boys" (1983)
- "___ Moon Rising"
- Quite inadequate
- Rotten egg, e.g.
- Unfavorable
- Incorrect
More clues leading to the result FUNEST
More clues leading to the result GRIM
- Like the 'Reaper'
- Sinister
- Not at all rosy
- Long-faced
- Like the `Reaper'
- Really dark
- Not looking so good
- Morbid
- Not looking rosy
- Bleak in outlook
More clues leading to the result FATAL
- "___ Attraction"
- Deadly
- Lethal
- Catastrophic
- Disastrous
- Inevitable
- Like some flaws
- Ensuring failure
- Having dire consequences
- Calamitous
More clues leading to the result TERRIBLE
- Describing Ivan
- Beyond bad
- Not merely bad
- Dire
- Like some twos
- Adjective for Alexander's day, in a Judith Viorst kids' book
- Distressing
- Distressing.
- Epithet for a Czar.
- Simply awful.