desperate

Speech parts

1. desperate - Noun

2. desperate - Adjective

3. desperate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.

Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.

Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.

Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.

One desperate or hopeless.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

despairing hopeless frantic critical serious extreme grave pressing heroic urgent dire rash reckless forlorn foolhardy
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Antonyms

jolly rapt positive capacity content minor
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Hypernyms

unfortunate unfortunate person

Hyponyms

goner toast

Phrases with the word

desperate situation desperate improvisation desperate actions desperate method desperate steps be desperate

Anagrams

seperated

Examples

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. Livy

Desperate affairs require desperate measures. Horatio Nelson

Desperate courage makes One a majority. Andrew Jackson

Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies. English Proverb

A desperate person will even hold on to a knife edge. Filipino Proverb

He who is desperate will squeeze oil out of a grain of sand. Japanese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

desperado desperadoes desperadoism desperate act desperate actions desperate bid