Synonym: frantic, mad, reckless, wild. Antonym: desirous, hopeful. Similar words: desperately, operate, tolerate, moderate, generate, cooperate, inveterate, accelerate. Meaning: ['despərət] n. a person who is frightened and in need of help. adj. 1. arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope 2. desperately determined 3. (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair 4. showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort 5. showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire 6. fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless.
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61. I was desperate for a cigarette.
62. The state of that country is desperate.
63. By 1613 even more desperate measures were in contemplation.
64. We're in desperate need of help.
65. I felt desperate about my future.
66. People are desperate for him to do something.
67. I'm desperate for a cigarette.
68. She found herself in desperate financial straits.
69. She was unable to restrain her desperate anger.
70. We had to resort to desperate measures .
71. The desperate bandit's firing at the police!
72. "I'm a desperate man," he growled savagely.
73. I'm desperate to see her.
74. They were desperate enough to try shock tactics.
75. They are desperate for help.
76. It was a desperate attempt to salvage the situation.
77. She wrote me a desperate letter.
78. Have you got some water? I'm desperate .
79. The report limned a desperate situation.
80. They face a desperate shortage of clean water.
81. The situation is desperate - we have no food, very little water and no medical supplies.
82. We never cherish any unrealistic fancies about those desperate criminals.
83. If she gets the job, that's one in the eye for Peter: he was desperate to get it.
84. He careened through foreign territories on a desperate kind of blitz.
85. Time was running out and we were getting desperate .
86. She was desperate to halt the march of time upon her face and figure.
87. The situation is now desperate, so please give generously .
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88. She clung to the edge in a desperate attempt to save herself.
89. This is a desperate situation which requires a truly radical solution.
90. The company is desperate to halt the haemorrhage of skilled staff.
More similar words: desperately, operate, tolerate, moderate, generate, cooperate, inveterate, accelerate, cooperate with, deliberately, despite, widespread, especially, respectively, with respect to, irrespective of, operator, operation, operating, rate, cooperative, AND operation, refrigerator, speculate, consideration, generation gap, at any rate, accurate, strategy, decorate.