Dire vs Repellent - What's the difference?
dire | repellent | Related terms |
Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
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, title= Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
(label) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
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, title= tending or able to repel; driving back
repulsive, inspiring aversion
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resistant or impervious to something
someone who repels
a substance used to repel insects
a substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something
Dire is a related term of repellent.
As a verb dire
is .As an adjective repellent is
tending or able to repel; driving back.As a noun repellent is
someone who repels.dire
English
Adjective
(en-adj)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.
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.}}