Meaning & use
direst
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Most extremely serious, urgent, or dreadful.
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They faced the direst consequences if the treaty collapsed.
In her direst hour of need, no one answered the phone.
A note on using this word
"Direst" is used almost exclusively in formal or literary writing, often in fixed phrases like "dire straits" or "dire warning."
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Words with an opposite meaning
mildest
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