Related Clues:

• Nearly hopeless
• Potentially disastrous
• --- Straits (rock group)
• Calamitous, like a threat
• Weather person's adjective
• Unnecessarily extreme
• Ill-fated
• Like 'King Lear'
• Extremely sad
• Acute
• Like ''Othello'' in tone
• Extremely serious
• Dreaded
• Hardly mild
• Fraught with danger