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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181. In Dresden, witnesses reported violent clashes between police and would-be emigrants desperate to board trains to the West.
182. The commando chief Rosemary lost interest in leading desperate missions.
183. Even though he could barely stand, John made one last desperate bid for survival.
184. Desperate to win in the third most conservative state, Bush threw in his lot with the religious right.
185. The camera crews were desperate for a shot, and the reporters needed a quote.
186. They were bartered for Western currency, sold by families desperate for money to buy food.
187. A man pretending to be a faith healer has conned around ￡20,000 out of desperate sick people.
188. The next day they went into battle with the desperate courage of brave men cornered.
189. In a desperate effort to camouflage falling rents and values landlords have been offering inducements to tenants.
190. They meet again today in a desperate bid to sort out who gets what of next year's ￡244.5 billion spending cake.
191. However, the brothers filed through their shackles and made a desperate and final bid for freedom.
192. Chacon maintains that lawmen and prosecutors, desperate to appease the public amid growing hysteria, pinned the murders on Sharif.
193. By early afternoon she had had enough and returned to the barn, desperate for the cool interior and something to eat.
194. Every day more and more desperate refugees were crossing the border into Kenya.
195. Singlewood, 17, ran into the courtyard of Durham Castle in a desperate bid to shake off his pursuer.
196. Fat women are defined as undesirable, asexual, maternal, sexually desperate, rampant or repressed.
197. We gasped for breath and fought off the pain, desperate not to lose.
198. Superb defence by Karpov, all the more praiseworthy in that he was now in desperate time trouble.
199. In a last desperate attempt to free himself of investigation, Nixon dismissed the special prosecutor Cox in October 1973.
200. Mrs Moore sat with Lily's pale hand in hers and talked with desperate gaiety about the coming of spring.
201. It's just a desperate attempt to make Sandra seem interesting.
202. Desperate, his wife Irene chased up a radio advertisement for drop-in surgery performed with only a local anaesthetic.
203. It shows that however bad things are now - and they are pretty desperate - they are going to get much worse.
204. Thousands of pastoralists have brought their cattle to Nairobi in a desperate search for grazing.
205. St Jovite was in a winning position on the final bend, but the race soon developed into its final desperate duel.
206. Has a wild goose grown desperate and confused by the disappearance of all grain and berries?
207. Desperate to impress after his call-up to Sven Goran Eriksson's squad, the battling midfielder tried to dictate the attacks. Sentencedict.com
208. Knox made a desperate bid to get in front at the last corner but Martin held his line and emerged the winner.
209. Give me a dark back alley compared with being a pinball in the gallery of the desperate.
210. By September Haig was desperate to achieve a significant breakthrough.
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.