Trying vs Dire - What's the difference?
trying | dire | Related terms |
Difficult to endure; arduous.
*1891 , Conan Doyle,
*:"Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"
Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
(philosophy) The act by which one tries something; an attempt.
* 2006 , Andrew Sneddon, Action and Responsibility (page 145)
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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Trying is a related term of dire.
As verbs the difference between trying and dire
is that trying is while dire is .As an adjective trying
is difficult to endure; arduous.As a noun trying
is (philosophy) the act by which one tries something; an attempt.trying
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Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
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(en noun)- In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.
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*dire
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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.}}