Synonyms for desperately
des·per·ate·ly

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1. urgently, desperatelyadverb

   with great urgency

   "health care reform is needed urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash"

   Synonyms:
   urgently

2. desperatelyadverb

   in intense despair

   "the child clung desperately to her mother"

   Synonyms:
   urgently

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1. List of paraphrases for "desperately":

   hopelessly, urgently, badly, frantically, frustratingly, sorely, distressingly, absolutely, disappointingly

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1. Yaser Khamis:

   We are calling for more support, this support must include machinery which we need desperately in order to continue our work.

2. Nagameh Abedini:

   My children have desperately missed the loving embrace of their father for the last three years of their lives. They have grown up almost half of their lives without their father, please help us ensure the remainder of their childhood includes both a mother and a father.

3. Mercy Corps spokesman Delafield:

   Shelter is incredibly hard to come by, we are desperately trying to get tarps in. It is very challenging.

4. Lisa Evans:

   Enforcement of the rule's provisions is desperately needed, as coal plants have demonstrated they don't care about polluting water or putting people's health at risk, and they have taken full advantage of the Trump EPA's hands-off policy, the result is nationwide pollution of water at coal plants.

5. Tom Steyer:

   I was watching this campaign and I was thinking, we're in a crisis and it's not being addressed, i couldn't sleep because I thought there was something desperately wrong affecting every American.