Definition of "direr" [direr]

• Comparative form of dire: more dire (adjective)

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• "Just when investors thought the Greece situation might be stabilizing, it grew direr."
• "On Indian reservations, the situation is even direr."
• "This illustrates that the "talk tough, do little" approach has been in place for successive White House administrations, though the situation is clearly direr today."