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.

Antonyms for Desperate:

• adj.

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

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.