DIRE Antonyms

• encouraging or approving or pleasing

• (of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate

• giving an advantage

• presaging or likely to bring good luck or a good outcome

• having unexpected good fortune

• supremely favored

• presaging good fortune

• soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe

• having or showing a kindly or tender nature

• quiet and soothing

• belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

• easily handled or managed

• having little impact

• marked by moderate steepness

• cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

• give a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility

• stroke soothingly

• having or manifesting hope

• an ambitious and aspiring young person

• likely to turn out well in the future

• devoid of importance, meaning, or force

• signifying nothing

• of little importance or influence or power; of minor status

• small and unimpressive

• moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme

• humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness

• mild and pleasant

• of lesser importance or stature or rank

• lesser in scope or effect

• inferior in number or size or amount

• (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees

• not of legal age

• of lesser seriousness or danger

• of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization

• a young person of either sex

• of the younger of two boys with the same family name

• warranting only temporal punishment

• relatively moderate, limited, or small

• have as one's secondary field of study

• affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings

• (of persons) having pleasing manners or behavior

• (informal) small and of little importance

• of little substance or significance

• concerned with trivialities