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Synonyms for desperate
ˈdɛs pər ɪt, -prɪtdes·per·ate
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
desperate
Synonyms:
wild, daring, audacious, determined, reckless, abandoned, rash, furious, frantic, despairing, regardless, mad, desponding, hapless, inextricable, irremediableAntonyms:
cool, calm, cautious, timid, shy, irresolute, remediable, hopeful, promising, propitious
Princeton's WordNet
desperateadjective
a person who is frightened and in need of help
"they prey on the hopes of the desperate"
Antonyms:
cowardly, beseeching, imploring, fearful, hopeful, noncritical, noncrucial, pleading, irresolute, safedespairing, desperateadjective
arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
"a despairing view of the world situation"; "the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal"; "a desperate cry for help"; "helpless and desperate--as if at the end of his tether"; "her desperate screams"
Synonyms:
heroic, do-or-die(a), despairing, direAntonyms:
cowardly, hopeful, fearful, safe, noncrucial, beseeching, imploring, pleading, irresolute, noncriticaldesperate, do-or-die(a)adjective
desperately determined
"do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict"
Antonyms:
noncrucial, fearful, imploring, beseeching, irresolute, safe, hopeful, noncritical, cowardly, pleadingdesperateadjective
(of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair
"a desperate criminal"; "taken hostage of desperate men"
Synonyms:
heroic, do-or-die(a), dire, despairingAntonyms:
fearful, irresolute, noncrucial, safe, beseeching, pleading, noncritical, cowardly, imploring, hopefuldesperate, heroicadjective
showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort
"made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war"- G.C.Marshall; "they took heroic measures to save his life"
Synonyms:
heroical, dire, do-or-die(a), epic, heroic, larger-than-life, despairing, expansive, grandAntonyms:
imploring, cowardly, fearful, noncritical, noncrucial, pleading, safe, beseeching, hopeful, irresolutedesperateadjective
showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire
"felt a desperate urge to confess"; "a desperate need for recognition"
Synonyms:
heroic, do-or-die(a), dire, despairingAntonyms:
hopeful, imploring, fearful, noncrucial, pleading, beseeching, safe, irresolute, cowardly, noncriticaldesperate, direadjective
fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
"a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency"
Synonyms:
dread(a), fearful, dreaded, dire, terrible, do-or-die(a), horrendous, fearsome, horrific, heroic, awful, frightening, despairing, direful, dreadfulAntonyms:
cowardly, pleading, irresolute, noncritical, fearful, safe, imploring, hopeful, noncrucial, beseeching
Dictionary of English Synonymes
desperateadjective
Synonyms:
despairing, hopeless, without hopedesperateadjective
Synonyms:
wretched, forlorn, beyond hopedesperateadjective
Synonyms:
rash, reckless, precipitate, headlong, frantic
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
desperateadjective
Synonyms:
irretrievable, hopeless, incurable, remediless, outrageous, atrocious, monstrous, heinous
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "desperate":
hopeless, despairing, dire, frantic, distraught, bereft, despair
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1450 | grand | |
#2028 | wild | |
#2328 | determined | |
#4248 | mad | |
#4782 | regardless | |
#6496 | desperate | |
#6918 | terrible | |
#8491 | epic | |
#8576 | abandoned | |
#9775 | awful | |
#15603 | rash | |
#15811 | despair | |
#16120 | dire | |
#16835 | furious | |
#18232 | heroic | |
#18719 | daring | |
#20756 | frightening | |
#21679 | reckless | |
#22400 | hopeless | |
#22989 | fearful | |
#23190 | dreadful | |
#24491 | frantic | |
#24721 | expansive | |
#26052 | horrific | |
#27446 | dreaded | |
#38864 | horrendous | |
#43288 | hapless | |
#51495 | fearsome | |
#51684 | audacious | |
#52242 | distraught | |
#62097 | bereft | |
#75438 | despairing | |
#145234 | inextricable | |
#229588 | irremediable |
How to use desperate in a sentence?
What we have been calling green, renewable energy and industrial civilization are one and the same thing - desperate measures not to save the planet but to save our way of life.
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
In less than a year, voters will have to rehire the Democratic majority or hire a new Republican one - and Democrats building roads, rebuilding bridges and expanding internet can become a centerpiece of that performance review, if anyone has doubts about the politics of this, you need to only remember how desperate Donald Trump was to do what President Joe Biden just got done.
Unless we get loans from friendly countries or the IMF, we actually won't have in another two or three months enough foreign exchange to service our debts or to pay for our imports. So we're desperate at the moment.
Chief Nursing Officer Tammy Daniel:
We're getting ready to intubate the patient, which means putting them on a ventilator, and they said,' If I get the vaccine now, could I not go on the ventilator ?' So, they're begging for it, they're desperate because they are gasping for air, they can't breathe, they are scared, they feel like they're going to pass away.
Translations for desperate
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- يائسArabic
- отчаян, безразсъденBulgarian
- desesperatCatalan, Valencian
- verzweifeltGerman
- desesperadoSpanish
- epätoivoinenFinnish
- désespéréFrench
- מיואשHebrew
- बेकरारHindi
- հանդուգն, հուսահատArmenian
- disperatoItalian
- ជាខ្លាំង, ដែលសាហាវKhmer
- 필사적 인Korean
- очаенMacedonian
- vertwijfeld, desperaat, radeloos, wanhopig, hopeloosDutch
- zdesperowanyPolish
- desesperadoPortuguese
- отчаянный, безрассудныйRussian
- očajanSerbo-Croatian
- తీరనిTelugu
- หมดหวังThai
- відчайдушнийUkrainian
- tuyệt vọngVietnamese
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