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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151. The government took desperate measures to keep the economy running.
152. The women's volleyball team put up a desperate fight to win the world championship at all costs.
153. Her desperate request for help was met with a rebuff.
154. This man is desperate and should not be approached as he may have a gun.
155. The man lost in the desert was desperate for water.
156. He was so desperate for a job he would have done anything.
157. She made a desperate attempt to move.
158. Then, with a desperate effort threw himself bodily away.
159. A desperate effort was made to reach agreement.
160. He might get a brainwave during school, or he might end up selling it to Desperate Dan.
161. Plainly in any less desperate case the risk of activating oncogenes would absolutely forbid the use of such a drug.
162. Finally he took a desperate gulp of air, then another, then broke into an enormous sob.
163. Joy made one last desperate attempt and produced the most horrendous squeak ever, like a hare caught by a harvest scythe.
164. Workers dug beneath the ruins of the building in a desperate bid to reach any survivors trapped inside.
165. Families who are desperate for housing are forced to accept bad housing offers simply because they have no other choice.
166. It just shows how desperate New Yorkers are to be ahead of the curve.
167. The motion had particularly pleased Mobuto who was desperate to bring Zimbala back into world affairs.
168. The lull in the housing market means that mortgage lenders are more desperate than ever to attract first-time buyers.
169. He now abandons the desperate plan of separating his company into two.
170. Images of desperate freedom-fighters handing the packet round behind the barricade.
171. But by 1613 even more desperate measures were in contemplation.
172. Flights took place sporadically throughout the month in a desperate attempt to build up stockpiles of supplies before the winter.
173. Men[sentencedict.com], women and children desperate for food had been systematically annihilated by the burning toxins.
174. They came from broken homes and were desperate to help struggling mums.
175. At the beginning of my illness I was on the exercise bike every day, desperate to lose weight.
176. Every so often a rabbit would make a desperate, lung-bursting bid for freedom, only to provide an easy target for the twelve-bores.
177. Protestors had climbed lime trees in a desperate bid to stop them being destroyed.Sentencedict
178. Fights erupted outside supermarkets as shoppers battled for parking spaces in desperate efforts to stock up with canned goods.
179. While toy sales here have hit a record high they face a desperate shortage of clean water.
180. In a desperate attempt to break the news gently to the Overs, Mr Cronje asked police not to visit their home.
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.