direness
adjectiveHow many syllables in direness?
There are 2 syllables in the word direness.How to pronounce direness:
Definition of direness:
- direness (adjective):
- exciting horror
Synonyms for direness:
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 direness:
inconsequentiality
insignificance
silliness
triviality
unimportance
weightedness
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- churner
- switching
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- daughter
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- stand-up
- tonight
- waiting
- glory
- giving
- granted
- sunset
- hunter
- distance
- cookie
- retired
- prayer
- berry
- Tamil
- waited
- prior
- sixteen
- neon
- sherry
- nonsense
- seven
- collect
- best-loved
- ousend
- country
- minute
- apple
- spelling
- sample
- teacher
- retrieved
- smoothly
- dappled
- stress test
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- blatant
- engross
- daddy
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- landscape
- Enoch
- calmly
- blessing
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