Words and phrases that have a meaning related to desperate: (164 results)
Often used in the same context:
hopeless, dire, pathetic, desperate straits, frantic, anxious, pitiful, vain, distraught, forlorn, despondent, eager, frustrated, urgent, helpless, precarious, destitute, hungry, dire straits, furious, futile, cynical, beleaguered, miserable, panicky, starved, dispirited, shameless, powerless, hapless, shellshocked, disillusioned, dejected, wretched, disconsolate, impatient, jaded, demoralized, greedy, dreadful, cruel, weary, heartless, perilous, heartbroken, fearful, angry, unhappy, selfish, exasperated, shambolic, appalling, disgraceful, faltering, frazzled, ruthless, keen, unable, woeful, foundering, feeble, unsuccessful, mad, bleak, bedraggled, frightened, troubled, disheartening, insecure, laughable, thirsty, anguished, shameful, brazen, foolish, discontented, disenchanted, feckless, downtrodden, misguided, restless, grim, stranded, unwilling, horrid, pitiable, lonely, dig deep, valiant, tired, heartbreaking, callous, unconvincing, unprincipled, inconsolable, unlucky, wifeless, heartsore, livid, concerted, ragged, willing, contortion, earnest, entreaty, fright, gasps, hopelessness, hunger, personal, revenge, ruse, strait, stratagem, supplication, weariness, wish, abiding, adventure, afterthought, aggravation, amour, desparate, ditch, heroic, courageous, dogged, obstinate, foolhardy, frenzied, quixotic, stubborn, daring, determined, indecisive, ineffectual, manful, advised
More specific:
goner
Appears in the definition of:
., demoralized, desperate measure, desperation, dunkerque, dunkirk, eye contact, forlorn hope, goner, hopelessly, madly, malady, menace, toast
More general:
unfortunate, unfortunate person
Synonyms:
Also try:brave, critical, dangerous, despairing, do-or-die, fearless, imperative, resolute, unsafe
— Nouns for desperate: need, attempt, effort, struggle, situation, efforts, men, resistance, straits, attempts, measures, more...
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