Definition for Desperate:

• Without care for danger; reckless, as from despair.

Synonyms for Desperate:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • heroic.
  •critical (adjective)
  • risky.
  •extreme (adjective)
  • urgent,
  • egregious,
  • great.
  •extreme, intense (adjective)
  • very grave,
  • vicious.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • discouraged,
  • irrecoverable,
  • depressed,
  • Desponding,
  • dispirited,
  • no-chance,
  • dismal,
  • wretched,
  • disheartened,
  • dejected,
  • glum,
  • back to the wall,
  • in the toilet,
  • downcast,
  • goner,
  • useless,
  • morose,
  • despondent,
  • irretrievable,
  • up the creek,
  • cheerless,
  • melancholy,
  • dead duck,
  • inconsolable,
  • spiritless,
  • gone,
  • irremediable,
  • gloomy,
  • sad,
  • anguished,
  • running out of time,
  • in despair,
  • desirous,
  • hard up,
  • sunk,
  • miserable,
  • up against it,
  • futile,
  • bleak,
  • downhearted,
  • vain,
  • past hope,
  • pessimistic.
  •last-minute (adjective)
  • last-ditch.

• n.

  •
  • serious,
  • profound.
  •
  • hope,
  • hungry,
  • anxious,
  • longing,
  • impatient.
  •
  • annoyed,
  • climacteric,
  • belligerent,
  • upset,
  • irritated,
  • mad,
  • safety,
  • angry,
  • cross,
  • displeased.
  •
  • strong,
  • violent,
  • big.
  •desperate (noun)
  • brave,
  • dangerous,
  • fearless,
  • hopeless,
  • unsafe,
  • imperative,
  • courageous,
  • do-or-die,
  • resolute.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • draconian,
  • rigorous,
  • gross,
  • extravagant,
  • maiden,
  • keen,
  • fierce,
  • ferocious,
  • procedural,
  • limp,
  • stark,
  • unprompted,
  • severe,
  • severely,
  • sublime,
  • token,
  • keenly,
  • fatally,
  • abandoned,
  • scalding,
  • dearly,
  • commemorative,
  • fervid,
  • lamely,
  • attempted,
  • preventive,
  • grievous,
  • towering,
  • parting,
  • dreadfully,
  • recreational,
  • ultimate,
  • saltwater.
  •
  • vehement,
  • supreme,
  • badly,
  • fatal,
  • massive,
  • intense,
  • extreme,
  • rigid,
  • part-time,
  • terminal,
  • official.
  •
  • proper,
  • savage,
  • sore,
  • lame.
  •
  • awful,
  • hostile,
  • amateur.
  •
  • heavy.
  •downhearted
  • wit.
  •frenzied
  • frantic.
  •Other relevant words:
  • dusk,
  • life-threatening,
  • trying,
  • rugged,
  • goodly,
  • impossible,
  • blackness,
  • epic,
  • impassable,
  • hysteric,
  • desolate,
  • self-contradictory,
  • disorderly,
  • slap-bang,
  • balked,
  • refractory,
  • Exigencies,
  • downright,
  • awfully,
  • frenzied,
  • beyond control,
  • uproarious,
  • Uncomeatable,
  • irreparable,
  • impervious,
  • crying,
  • dreadful,
  • helpless,
  • hurried,
  • tumultuous,
  • critic,
  • mighty,
  • stubborn,
  • knotted,
  • reckless,
  • grand,
  • in extremis,
  • compelling,
  • difficult,
  • appallingly,
  • emergency,
  • raving,
  • dismally,
  • lamentable,
  • consummate,
  • wretchedly,
  • headlong,
  • inaccessible,
  • dimness,
  • crazily,
  • blustering,
  • Desperateness,
  • needful,
  • maniacal,
  • in hysterics,
  • danger,
  • apathetic,
  • tragic,
  • precipitous,
  • heels over head,
  • hazardous,
  • like mad,
  • extraordinary,
  • dreaded,
  • horrific,
  • puissant,
  • hazard,
  • gloominess,
  • plaguy,
  • out of reach,
  • desperately,
  • uncontrollable,
  • despondency,
  • beyond repair,
  • comfortless,
  • heroical,
  • seriously,
  • noble,
  • wanton,
  • hotheaded,
  • excessive,
  • labyrinthine,
  • Hot-headed,
  • death-defying,
  • thwarted,
  • risk,
  • breakneck,
  • pitifully,
  • uninitiated,
  • unhappily,
  • knotty,
  • unhappy,
  • peril,
  • foolhardy,
  • unobtainable,
  • foiled,
  • thumping,
  • uttermost,
  • low-spirited,
  • turbulent,
  • incompatible,
  • inextricable,
  • quit,
  • larger-than-life,
  • scandalous,
  • pressing,
  • perverse,
  • infeasible,
  • precipitant,
  • Hoping,
  • incautious,
  • disastrous,
  • thorny,
  • powerful,
  • drearily,
  • sadly,
  • heedless,
  • Invious,
  • frenetic,
  • giddy,
  • distressing,
  • frustrated,
  • insuperable,
  • bad,
  • thorough-paced,
  • hasty,
  • Tameless,
  • sorrowful,
  • infuriate,
  • heinous,
  • inattentive,
  • daring,
  • complicated,
  • insanely,
  • Madding,
  • majestic,
  • improvident,
  • lachrymose,
  • outrageous,
  • horrendous,
  • preposterous,
  • naughtily,
  • potent,
  • mournful,
  • trackless,
  • monstrous,
  • cuckoo,
  • distracted,
  • frightening,
  • violently,
  • abject,
  • forceful,
  • arrant,
  • dignified,
  • tearful,
  • aching for,
  • eager,
  • baffled,
  • neglectful,
  • intractable,
  • unsurmountable,
  • gloom,
  • maenadic,
  • darkness,
  • temerarious,
  • rash,
  • rabid,
  • harum-scarum,
  • arch,
  • disconsolate,
  • thirsty,
  • awkward,
  • beyond hope,
  • obstreperous,
  • insane,
  • Dionysiac,
  • grim,
  • riotous,
  • lost,
  • overeager,
  • incurable,
  • harsh,
  • radical,
  • disturbing,
  • running wild,
  • despairingly,
  • direful,
  • poorly,
  • unhopeful,
  • Tumultuary,
  • determined,
  • accident-prone,
  • dispose,
  • troublous,
  • precarious,
  • tangled,
  • raving mad,
  • uncalculating,
  • august,
  • woeful,
  • perilous,
  • heartbroken,
  • utter,
  • dread,
  • flagrant,
  • slapdash,
  • deserted,
  • hopelessness,
  • play with fire,
  • madcap,
  • rank,
  • devil-may-care,
  • upsetting,
  • heartsick,
  • desparate,
  • wild,
  • repute,
  • Broken-hearted,
  • phrenetic,
  • oppressive,
  • Direly,
  • insurmountable,
  • covetous,
  • tenuous,
  • craving,
  • face-saving,
  • unmanageable,
  • no way,
  • raging,
  • panic-stricken,
  • careless,
  • ravening,
  • unattainable,
  • unfortunately,
  • cut up,
  • headstrong,
  • troubling,
  • fearsome,
  • regrettable,
  • chance,
  • desperado,
  • vigorous,
  • imprudent,
  • furiously,
  • aching,
  • bacchic,
  • woebegone,
  • wrongly,
  • almighty,
  • pinched,
  • fabulous,
  • unsurpassed,
  • yearning,
  • gloomily,
  • convoluted,
  • lethal,
  • impracticable,
  • dreariness,
  • roaring,
  • madly,
  • indiscreet,
  • inextinguishable,
  • crass,
  • terrifically,
  • overenthusiastic,
  • bold,
  • straitened,
  • Innavigable,
  • Exigence,
  • desperation,
  • audacious,
  • head over heels,
  • distraught,
  • complete,
  • glaring,
  • intricate,
  • thoroughgoing,
  • deadly,
  • impetuous,
  • obstinate,
  • precipitate,
  • amok,
  • overzealous,
  • deplorable,
  • expansive,
  • virulence,
  • hideously,
  • atrociously,
  • pining,
  • maniac,
  • berserk,
  • important,
  • glumness,
  • exigency,
  • ranting,
  • dolefully,
  • precious,
  • hard-pressed,
  • cloud,
  • unwieldy,
  • pathless,
  • frightfully,
  • wishing,
  • desolation,
  • unmitigated,
  • frantically,
  • depression,
  • unfeasible,
  • venturesome,
  • despair.

Paraphrases for Desperate:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    despairing, hopeless, dire, distraught.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    distressed, urgent, wretched, dramatic, last-ditch, pressing, helpless, miserable, terrible, tragic, dreadful, bereft, appalling, impoverished, acute, drastic, harrowing, extreme, frustrated, anxious, difficult, destitute, disparate, sad, eager, catastrophic, critical, needy, urgently, distressing, weary, horrendous, ready, abject, serious, bitter, compelling, poignant, deplorable, bleak, impatient, tired, imperative, precarious, reckless, severe, absolute, disastrous, alarming, unfortunate, horrific, devastating.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    frantic.
  • Interjection
    despair.

Antonyms for Desperate:

• adj.

  • extreme, intense
    good, nice, gentle, unimportant, trivial.
  • hopeless
    happy, joyful, cheerful.
  • reckless, outrageous
    unworried, moderate, secure, satisfied, meek, content, contented, calm, peaceful, quiet, hopeful, mild, afraid, satisfactory, timid, shy, confident, weak.
  • Other antonyms:
    chipper, perky, cowardly, elated, vivacious, animated, encouraged, exhilarated, jaunty, lively, blissful, gladdened, jolly, euphoric, merry, safe, heartened, fearful, exultant, irresolute, lightsome, jubilant, delighted, blithe, Sprightful, noncrucial, gladsome, gleeful, cheery, optimistic, sprightly, noncritical, pleading, joyous, imploring, upbeat, enraptured, exuberant, sunny, beseeching, entranced, jocund, ecstatic, glad, buoyant, blithesome, jovial, mirthful.

Homophones for Desperate:

• dickey-bird, disk overhead, disport, dispirited, discovered, dickeybird, dickybird, deciphered, disparate, disparity, Dika Bread, discovery day, dashboard, dispirit, duckboard, dispread, desperado, dicky-bird.

Hypernym for Desperate:

• n.

  • person
    toast, goner.

Hyponym for Desperate:

• n.

  • person
    unfortunate person, unfortunate.