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Pronunciation: [dˈa͡ɪ͡əst] (IPA)

Direst is an adjective that describes something as the most serious, urgent and extreme. Some synonyms for this word include grave, critical, severe, desperate, terrible, dreadful, menacing, and perilous. Other words that may be used to describe a situation that is direst include alarming, hazardous, pressing, urgent, harrowing, and traumatic. When faced with such situations, it is important to stay calm and focused in order to find solutions and make informed decisions. Using synonyms for direst when discussing serious issues can add depth and significance to language and convey the severity of a situation more effectively.
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Usage examples for Direst

Harry sprang to the bridle, but he did not try to get away, and only stood quivering and breathing loudly as if in the direst fear, and leaned close to Harry for protection.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
His shrewd if debased intellect had told him from the first that nothing but the direst need would bring a Dudley to his door on any sort of mission whatsoever.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
They gazed in direst consternation at the revolver presented full at them, at the resolute grey eyes behind it-at the two revolvers, for Gerard, quick to grasp the situation had covered them with his.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford

Famous quotes with Direst

  • AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
    Susan Sontag
  • From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
    Cato the Elder
  • AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder.
    Susan Sontag
  • "And the Bastard grant us . . . in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. In darkness, understanding."
    Lois McMaster Bujold
  • O faithful! Moulded in one womb, We have stood together all the years, All the glad years and all the sorrowful years, Own brothers: through good repute and ill, In direst peril true to me, Leaving all things for me, spending yourself In the hard service that I taught to you, Of all the men that I have known on earth, You only have been my familiar friend, Nor needed I another.
    Patrick Pearse

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