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.
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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91. Barnet was desperate for money to resolve his financial problems.
92. His increasing financial difficulties forced him to take desperate measures.
93. As the situation becomes more desperate, there is a growing stridency in the appeals for aid.
94. He would never dream up a desperate scheme like that on his own.
95. We got stuck in a traffic jam and I was desperate for the loo.
96. She felt utterly desperate.
97. I was so desperate that I took the first job that came along.
98. They'd been married nearly four years and June was desperate to start a family.
99. The company'sclosure has left many small businessmen in desperate financial straits.
100. They lost all their money and sank into desperate poverty.
101. The children are in desperate need of love and attention.
102. It is one of the most desperate cases on her files.
103. They're desperate to escape.
104. Even if you are desperate to get married, never let it show.
105. The official dismissed the speech as the ramblings of a desperate lunatic.
106. They made desperate attempts to halt the headlong rush into war.
107. The club was in desperate need of a new footballing messiah.
108. There are hundreds of people desperate to adopt a child.
109. He attacked his guards in a desperate bid for freedom.
110. He twisted and turned in a desperate attempt to shake off his pursuer.
111. She was shocked into action by the desperate situation in the orphanages.
112. He was desperate. He was in debt up to his ears.
113. London employers were suffering from a desperate shortage of school-leavers.
114. Doctors were fighting a desperate battle to save the little girl's life.
115. It was a last desperate throw of the dice to save his marriage.
116. Desperate measures are needed to deal with the growing drug problem.
117. The constant partygoing of her later years was a desperate camouflage for her grief.
118. To stay above water(sentencedict.com), many businesses have already been forced to take desperate measures.
119. The pilot then began a desperate race against time to land the plane before it ran out of fuel.
120. He is desperate to pursue his vocation as an artist.
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.