Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryWarning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous. · Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing. · Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal. · Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
Borrowed from Latin dīrus (“fearful, ominous”).
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- Borrowed-form mentiondīrusla · fearful, ominous
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