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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241. Others are like birds in a greenhouse: banging against the glass, desperate to spread their wings.
242. Do not be tempted to borrow from friends or neighbours, nomatterhow desperate you are.
243. But now her need of him was desperate and unashamed, and their clandestine meetings were not enough.
244. The makers of the genuine article have agreed to let Oxfam pass the shoes on to refugees who are desperate for footwear.
245. She kept up the desperate battle until another ambulance reached them near Hexham, Northumberland.
246. Or as a desperate bid to get Aviemore to come up with the money?
247. World War I had been a desperate see-saw battle up till its closing days.
248. A desperate attempt to make some capital out of the black passed pawn on b2.
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.