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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?
Henry David Thoreau, "Walden":
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. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Why should we be in such desperate hast 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.
Desperate times calls for more than simply desperate measures. It calls for putting one's values aside till the desperation subsides" --Mental Hell, Chapter 3
Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.
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
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