Disturbing vs Dire - What's the difference?
disturbing | dire | Related terms |
Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.
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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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Disturbing is a related term of dire.
As verbs the difference between disturbing and dire
is that disturbing is while dire is .As an adjective disturbing
is causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.disturbing
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(head)dire
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(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.}}