direly
adjectiveHow many syllables in direly?
There are 2 syllables in the word direly.How to pronounce direly:
Definition of direly:
- direly (adjective):
- exciting horror
Synonyms for direly:
baleful
black
bleak
dark
darkening
depressing
depressive
desolate
direful
foreboding
gray
grey
ill
ill-boding
inauspicious
lonely
menacing
minatory
murky
ominous
portentous
sinister
somber
threatening
unfavorable
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Antonyms for direly:
beautifully
blessedly
fortunately
goodly
happily
hopefully
joyfully
lightly
luckily
nicely
pleasantly
pleasingly
sunnily
trivially
unimportantly
wonderfully
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- contrast
- Charon
- neglect
- laicize
- forgo
- cation
- whoe'er
- surrounds
- planner
- jocund
- creaky
- copies
- amble
- unclean
- unbolt
- tramble
- offspring
- hexact
- dresser
- whining
- robber
- wordless
- wrecked
- well-versed
- glumpy
- galloped
- centure
- transience
- misplace
- blazer
- thorny
- distort
- disband
- unlove
- fragrance
- coaching
- rotund
- floated
- enchant
- cheerless
- beamy
- ghostly
- namaste
- Lucia
- idly
- homage
- gallop
- fugie
- aureate
- cuisine
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