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Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'desperate' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) desperate
a person who is frightened and in need of help
Antonyms: cowardly, beseeching, imploring, fearful, hopeful, noncritical, noncrucial, pleading, irresolute, safe

2. (adj) despairing, desperate
arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
Synonyms: heroic, do-or-die(a), desperate, despairing, dire
Antonyms: cowardly, hopeful, fearful, safe, noncrucial, beseeching, imploring, pleading, irresolute, noncritical

3. (adj) desperate, do-or-die(a)
desperately determined
Antonyms: noncrucial, fearful, imploring, beseeching, irresolute, safe, hopeful, noncritical, cowardly, pleading

4. (adj) desperate
(of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair
Synonyms: heroic, do-or-die(a), dire, despairing
Antonyms: fearful, irresolute, noncrucial, safe, beseeching, pleading, noncritical, cowardly, imploring, hopeful

5. (adj) desperate, heroic
showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort
Synonyms: heroical, dire, do-or-die(a), epic, heroic, larger-than-life, desperate, despairing, expansive, grand
Antonyms: imploring, cowardly, fearful, noncritical, noncrucial, pleading, safe, beseeching, hopeful, irresolute

6. (adj) desperate
showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire
Synonyms: heroic, do-or-die(a), dire, despairing
Antonyms: hopeful, imploring, fearful, noncrucial, pleading, beseeching, safe, irresolute, cowardly, noncritical

7. (adj) desperate, dire
fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
Synonyms: dread(a), fearful, dreaded, dire, terrible, do-or-die(a), horrendous, fearsome, horrific, heroic, desperate, awful, frightening, despairing, direful, dreadful
Antonyms: cowardly, pleading, irresolute, noncritical, fearful, safe, imploring, hopeful, noncrucial, beseeching


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