desperate in English

adjective

1

feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with.

a desperate sadness enveloped Ruth

synonyms: despairing, hopeless, anguished, distressed, wretched, desolate, forlorn, distraught, fraught, out of one's mind, at one's wits' end, beside oneself, at the end of one's rope/tether

adjective

despairing, hopeless, anguished, distressed, wretched, desolate, forlorn, distraught, fraught, out of one's mind, at one's wits' end, beside oneself, at the end of one's rope/tether
last-ditch, last-gasp, eleventh-hour, do-or-die, final, frantic, frenzied, wild, futile, hopeless, doomed
grave, serious, critical, acute, risky, precarious, dire, awful, terrible, dreadful, urgent, pressing, crucial, vital, drastic, extreme, chronic
in great need of, urgently requiring, in want of, eager for, longing for, yearning for, hungry for, crying out for, dying for
violent, dangerous, lawless, reckless, rash, hasty, impetuous, foolhardy, incautious, hazardous, risky, do-or-die
dire
despairing
do-or-die
heroic

Use "desperate" in a sentence

1. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

2. Desperate diseases must have desperate cures. 

3. It's a desperate situation demanding a desperate remedy.

4. We're desperate.

5. I regret this desperate act, but these are desperate times.

6. Yeah, they're desperate.

7. There are other examples, however, of desperate times begetting desperate measures.

8. They're desperate for help.

9. Which craves as desperate an execution As that is desperate which we would prevent.

10. Sometimes the heart is desperate

11. We feel helpless and desperate.

12. The tone was comically desperate.

13. The prisoners grew increasingly desperate.

14. It’s not that she’s desperate.

15. The prisoners grew more desperate.

16. His failure made him desperate.

17. " Desperate " is a strong word.

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19. Because you're perfect and I'm desperate.

20. Oh, he's got s desperate migraine.

21. The report limned a desperate situation.

22. Disparate remedies for a desperate disease.

23. 18 The prisoners grew increasingly desperate.

24. I was starting to get desperate.

25. Desperate men are capable of anything.

26. It might attract some desperate characters.

27. They're getting desperate about the cabaret.

28. "I'm a desperate man," he growled savagely.

29. A desperate Nixon then played his trump.

30. Too late I realised he was desperate for a scapegoat, desperate to wreak his personal vengeance on Moira's killer.

31. We had to resort to desperate measures .

32. They made a desperate plea for help.

33. She found herself in desperate financial straits.

34. The company is in desperate trouble financially.

35. He had been faced with desperate circumstances.

36. What are you so desperate to find out?

37. Peter threw a desperate glance over her shoulder.

38. She was unable to restrain her desperate anger.

39. 9 We had to resort to desperate measures .

40. She had a desperate longing to go back.

41. The Collector resorted to even more desperate remedies.

42. I had no money left and was desperate.

43. It struck me as both desperate and careless.

44. It was time for a last desperate gamble.

45. There were the sounds of a desperate struggle.

46. They were desperate enough to try shock tactics.

47. Policies emerging from the Kremlin look increasingly desperate.

48. They are in desperate need of food and shelter.

49. And they were desperate for a shipment of cigarettes!

50. The situation is now desperate, so please give generously .