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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121. Many of the properties are in a desperate state but none is too far gone to save.
122. You know the health service is in such a state and it's getting desperate now.
123. He is so deep in debt and desperate for money that he's apparently willing to say anything.
124. They're desperate for money.
125. The general made one last desperate effort to retrieve the situation.
126. The police are desperate to catch this man dead or alive.
127. If foreign aid dries up the situation will be desperate.
128. The desperate desire to go to Moscow ruled their lives.
129. All in all, it adds up to a pretty desperate situation.
130. Later he turned his attention to the desperate state of housing in the province.
131. I was desperate to find a way out of teaching so when this job came along I snatched at it.
132. Desperate remedies were resorted to in the search for food.
133. Though the brakes of his bike had somewhat gone wrong, he still shot the works in a desperate effort to win the race.
134. The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.
135. A closer reading of the text reveals just how desperate he was feeling.
136. They admit they are now desperate for a lucky break.
137. It would be a bit of an exaggeration to say that I'm desperate to leave.
138. Her suicide attempt was really a desperate cry for help.
139. The desperate condition of the world is that madness has always been here, and that it will remain so for all time.
140. I felt I couldn't cope with the situation and was in desperate need of some reassurance.
141. He intercuts scenes of Rex getting more and more desperate with scenes of the abductor with his family.
142. The sudden loss of his money had made him desperate.
143. It was a desperate plan, with little hope of success.
144. He maintained his composure despite a desperate desire to laugh.
145. As he left the theatre, the singer was set upon by fans desperate for autographs.
146. The President has so far refused to countersign the Prime Minister's desperate decree.
147. The union is desperate to avoid a split over this issue.
148. He's desperate for money.
149. They were desperate to offload the kids for a few hours.
150. If you're desperate for disk space you could zip the file and stick it on a floppy.
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.