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Dire vs Dier - What's the difference?

dire | dier |

As an adjective dire

is warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.

As a noun dier is

one who dies.

dire

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
  • Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.
  • Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
  • (label) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 10, author=Arindam Rej, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Norwich 4-2 Newcastle , passage=A second Norwich goal in four minutes arrived after some dire Newcastle defending. Gosling gave the ball away with a sloppy back-pass, allowing Crofts to curl in a cross that the unmarked Morison powered in with a firm, 12-yard header.}}

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "dire")

    Derived terms

    * direful * direly * direness * dire sisters * dire straits * dire wolf

    See also

    * voir dire

    Anagrams

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    dier

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who dies.
  • * Don DeLillo, White Noise
    • It's a way of controlling death. A way of gaining the ultimate upper hand. Be the killer for a change. Let someone else be the dier .
  • * 2006 , Shankar Mokashi Punekar, Awadheswari
    • Since other languages are structurally constrained to say who it was who died and since the original leaves the identity of the dier unexpressed, any translation in the target language is going to be incorrect.
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