What is another word for desperate?
Pronunciation:
[ dˈɛspəɹət], [ dˈɛspəɹət], [ d_ˈɛ_s_p_ə_ɹ_ə_t]
Related words: desperate for money, desperate for a relationship, desperate for attention, "desperate housewives"
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Similar words for desperate:
- acute (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- almighty (adjective)
- atrocious (adjective)
- climactic/climacteric (adjective)
- concentrated (adjective)
- critical (adjective)
- crucial (adjective)
- despairing (adjective)
- dire (adjective)
- exquisite (adjective)
- extreme (adjective)
- extreme, intense (adjective)
- forlorn (adjective)
- furious (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- horrendous (adjective)
- infelicitous (adjective)
- ireful (adjective)
- last-ditch (adjective)
- last-minute (adjective)
- monstrous (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- reckless (adjective)
- scandalous (adjective)
- shocking (adjective)
- terrible (adjective)
- tough (adjective)
- unfortunate (adjective)
- vehement (adjective)
- violent (adjective)
- brave (noun)
- courageous (noun)
- dangerous (noun)
- desperate (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- downhearted
- frenzied
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Desperate:
adj.
• acute (adjective) • all (adjective) • almighty (adjective) • atrocious (adjective) • climactic/climacteric (adjective) • concentrated (adjective) • critical (adjective) • crucial (adjective) • despairing (adjective)- more no-win,
- nowin,
- in dumps,
- at end ones rope,
- de pressed,
- most strabilious,
- at end one rope,
- at end of one rope,
- de-pressed,
- at end of ones rope,
- no win,
- at end rope,
- most no-win,
- more nowin,
- in consolable,
- in pits,
- most sunk,
- most nowin,
- more sunk,
- in the dumps,
- more strabilious,
- more no win,
- in-consolable,
- in soup,
- at end one's rope,
- not prayer,
- cant win,
- most no win,
- wretched,
- grief stricken.
- be reft,
- forgotten,
- de-stroyed,
- be-reft,
- down out,
- un happier,
- un-happy,
- de stroyed,
- helpless,
- un happiest,
- un happy,
- de-solate,
- de solate.
- in censed,
- most maniac,
- more smoking,
- fit be tied,
- in sanest,
- bent out shape,
- most corybantic,
- in-saner,
- most steamed,
- most smoking,
- in saner,
- more fuming,
- most fuming,
- more corybantic,
- steamed,
- most maddened,
- most hacked,
- more hacked,
- on warpath,
- more maniac,
- enraged,
- in-censed,
- in-sane,
- up arms,
- in sane,
- more maddened,
- more steamed.
- downcast,
- no-chance,
- up the creek,
- spiritless,
- back to the wall,
- desirous,
- hard up,
- bleak,
- disheartened,
- dead duck,
- discouraged,
- depressed,
- irremediable,
- sunk,
- Desponding,
- dispirited,
- no-way,
- dismal,
- vain,
- miserable,
- despondent,
- useless,
- sad,
- anguished,
- in the toilet,
- goner,
- cheerless,
- downhearted,
- in despair,
- inconsolable,
- irretrievable,
- running out of time,
- morose,
- unmitigable,
- irrecoverable,
- gloomy,
- beyond recall,
- melancholy,
- irredeemable,
- dejected,
- past hope,
- unachievable,
- futile,
- pessimistic,
- up against it,
- glum,
- gone.
- in famous,
- un canniest,
- most teratoid,
- un-canniest,
- in human,
- more horrifying,
- un-cannier,
- more miscreated,
- in-tolerable,
- dis graceful,
- most horrifying,
- more teratoid,
- in tolerable,
- mis created,
- in-human,
- mis-created,
- un cannier,
- Miscreated,
- dis-graceful,
- un-canny,
- most miscreated,
- un canny.
- infelicitous,
- terrible,
- hardboiled,
- atrocious,
- Hacked,
- hardnosed,
- browned off,
- ireful,
- smoking,
- crucial,
- godawful,
- in a bad way,
- in the soup,
- head-strong,
- on the make,
- out of luck,
- despairing,
- concentrated,
- bummed out,
- hopping mad,
- forlorn,
- dire,
- hard line,
- ill-chosen,
- on the warpath,
- down and out,
- bent out of shape,
- hanging by thread,
- unprosperous,
- Corybantic,
- red hot,
- drastic,
- no-win,
- hyper,
- exquisite,
- shocking,
- on thin ice,
- hardbitten,
- touch and go,
- griefstricken,
- in the pits,
- not a prayer,
- hard-shelled,
- hopped up,
- climactical,
- at end of rope,
- strabilious,
- peaker,
- acute,
- Teratoid,
- furious,
- horrifyin,
- shot down,
- at end of one's rope,
- tough,
- in pain,
- can't win,
- critical,
- grody,
- ruffianly,
- climatic.
- more backbiting,
- un-truer,
- most traducing,
- more detracting,
- un truest,
- most maligning,
- more vilifying,
- most gossiping,
- de-tractive,
- most vilifying,
- un truer,
- more traducing,
- more gossiping,
- more maligning,
- most backbiting,
- libelous,
- un-truest,
- most detracting,
- de tractive.
- un-speakable,
- most stupefying,
- unspeakable,
- de-testable,
- dis quieting,
- dis gusting,
- de testable,
- more stupefying,
- dis-quieting,
- un speakable,
- dis-gusting.
- un-pleasant,
- more unnerving,
- un pleasant,
- un nerving,
- more dreaded,
- aweinspiring,
- in convenient,
- unwelcome,
- most dreaded,
- most petrifying,
- in-convenient,
- more petrifying,
- inconvenient,
- most unnerving,
- un-nerving,
- un welcome,
- awe inspiring,
- un-welcome.
- hard bitten,
- re-solute,
- in-tractable,
- hard nosed,
- most hard shelled,
- more hard shelled,
- in tractable,
- hardshelled,
- most ruffianly,
- more ruffianly,
- un yielding,
- un-yielding,
- un forgiving,
- un manageable,
- un-alterable,
- un-controllable,
- more hard-shelled,
- hard shelled,
- hardline,
- un controllable,
- ex-acting,
- ex acting,
- in flexible,
- more hardshelled,
- unforgiving,
- most hardshelled,
- in-flexible,
- un-forgiving,
- most hard-shelled,
- hard boiled,
- re solute,
- un-manageable,
- un alterable.
- ill starred,
- most jinxed,
- out luck,
- un propitious,
- in opportune,
- starcrossed,
- more unprosperous,
- more shattered,
- un fortunate,
- un-favorable,
- un-becoming,
- un suitable,
- un-successful,
- ill-starred,
- in appropriate,
- un-prosperous,
- in-appropriate,
- jinxed,
- un successful,
- un becoming,
- in-opportune,
- most shattered,
- illstarred,
- un favorable,
- Star-crossed,
- un-fortunate,
- more jinxed,
- un-suitable,
- un prosperous,
- most unprosperous,
- in bad way,
- star crossed.
n.
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•
- hope,
- impatient,
- longing,
- in the hope that/of,
- in need of something,
- anxious,
- be dying for something/to do something,
- hungry.
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- belligerent,
- upset,
- climacteric,
- displeased,
- fed up,
- safety,
- irritated,
- annoyed,
- angry,
- mad,
- cross,
- put out.
Other synonyms:
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- dreadfully,
- extravagant,
- fatally,
- saltwater,
- scalding,
- recreational,
- unprompted,
- draconian,
- preventative,
- procedural,
- sublime,
- severely,
- preventive,
- grievous,
- towering,
- commemorative,
- maiden,
- ultimate,
- fervid,
- token,
- on-the-job,
- gross,
- heavy-duty,
- abandoned,
- parting,
- face saving,
- keen,
- stark,
- two-handed,
- limp,
- rigorous,
- lamely,
- attempted,
- severe,
- frontal,
- reciprocal,
- fierce,
- ferocious,
- keenly,
- dearly.
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•
- losing,
- sharply,
- terminal,
- part-time,
- unbearable,
- paid,
- vehement,
- explosive,
- Searing,
- intense,
- official,
- spectacular,
- massive,
- rigid,
- badly,
- supreme,
- extreme,
- fatal,
- two-step,
- merciless,
- far.
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•
- heavy.
- wit.
- panic-stricken,
- intractable,
- dolefully,
- Invious,
- almighty,
- unattainable,
- consummate,
- impervious,
- unhappy,
- atrociously,
- breakneck,
- bacchic,
- distressing,
- downright,
- scandalous,
- uncalculating,
- incurable,
- august,
- unmanageable,
- overenthusiastic,
- beyond saving,
- utter,
- outrageous,
- frightening,
- lamentable,
- regrettable,
- frenzied,
- violently,
- out of reach,
- Exigence,
- appallingly,
- hazard,
- frustrated,
- crazily,
- balked,
- radical,
- heroical,
- disorderly,
- madcap,
- hazardous,
- cloud,
- flagrant,
- blustering,
- poorly,
- important,
- precious,
- foolhardy,
- maniacal,
- harum-scarum,
- despair,
- play with fire,
- hysteric,
- reckless,
- quit,
- tenuous,
- Uncomeatable,
- despondency,
- chance,
- improvident,
- thwarted,
- awfully,
- hard-pressed,
- maniac,
- inextinguishable,
- knotty,
- gloom,
- raving mad,
- woeful,
- furiously,
- lachrymose,
- thorough-paced,
- complete,
- harsh,
- fearsome,
- grim,
- trackless,
- larger-than-life,
- epic,
- deplorable,
- affording no hope,
- extraordinary,
- careless,
- uttermost,
- frenetic,
- naughtily,
- self-contradictory,
- indiscreet,
- troubling,
- incompatible,
- phrenetic,
- covetous,
- sorrowful,
- disconsolate,
- in extremis,
- dimness,
- gloomily,
- neglectful,
- needful,
- headstrong,
- distraught,
- wild,
- complicated,
- dreaded,
- pathless,
- inattentive,
- woebegone,
- cuckoo,
- running wild,
- Desperateness,
- refractory,
- baffled,
- gloominess,
- rank,
- imprudent,
- sadly,
- upsetting,
- dread,
- grand,
- deadly,
- dreadful,
- darkness,
- head over heels,
- desolation,
- thumping,
- craving,
- perverse,
- devil-may-care,
- overeager,
- repute,
- beyond repair,
- insuperable,
- in desperate straits,
- ravening,
- inextricable,
- unwieldy,
- obstreperous,
- glumness,
- Hot-headed,
- wrongly,
- headlong,
- slapdash,
- blackness,
- Direly,
- expansive,
- mournful,
- desparate,
- cut up,
- wishing,
- no way,
- heartbroken,
- straitened,
- Innavigable,
- unsurpassed,
- tearful,
- unobtainable,
- precipitant,
- impetuous,
- Broken-hearted,
- hotheaded,
- mighty,
- lost,
- unfeasible,
- pitifully,
- precarious,
- labyrinthine,
- aching for,
- rash,
- compelling,
- beyond help,
- hurried,
- dreariness,
- desperately,
- desperado,
- audacious,
- Madding,
- powerful,
- potent,
- stubborn,
- uninitiated,
- maenadic,
- impossible,
- tragic,
- turbulent,
- heedless,
- face-saving,
- convoluted,
- temerarious,
- accident-prone,
- monstrous,
- infuriate,
- daring,
- bad,
- obstinate,
- lethal,
- wanton,
- awkward,
- giddy,
- tangled,
- heels over head,
- amok,
- knotted,
- overzealous,
- direful,
- like mad,
- desperation,
- bold,
- dusk,
- despairingly,
- roaring,
- venturesome,
- comfortless,
- desolate,
- inaccessible,
- rugged,
- difficult,
- risk,
- goodly,
- tumultuous,
- insanely,
- hopelessness,
- precipitate,
- precipitous,
- frightfully,
- perilous,
- insurmountable,
- pinched,
- thoroughgoing,
- Exigencies,
- frantically,
- low-spirited,
- intricate,
- uproarious,
- unfortunately,
- Tumultuary,
- unmitigated,
- pining,
- insane,
- unsurmountable,
- unhopeful,
- raging,
- yearning,
- raving,
- infeasible,
- trying,
- depression,
- irreparable,
- incautious,
- vigorous,
- dispose,
- Hoping,
- rabid,
- thirsty,
- horrific,
- deserted,
- unhappily,
- Dionysiac,
- riotous,
- drearily,
- disastrous,
- apathetic,
- arrant,
- majestic,
- madly,
- noble,
- plaguy,
- Tameless,
- slap-bang,
- hasty,
- exigency,
- seriously,
- berserk,
- fabulous,
- peril,
- crying,
- beyond control,
- impracticable,
- critic,
- puissant,
- eager,
- crass,
- preposterous,
- aching,
- determined,
- danger,
- thorny,
- dismally,
- terrifically,
- hideously,
- forceful,
- glaring,
- abject,
- death-defying,
- emergency,
- heartsick,
- virulence,
- pressing,
- foiled,
- arch,
- dignified,
- wretchedly,
- excessive,
- beyond hope,
- oppressive,
- uncontrollable,
- life-threatening,
- disturbing,
- ranting,
- in hysterics,
- troublous,
- distracted,
- impassable.
How to use "Desperate" in context?
1. desperate times call for desperate measures. In this age of economic recession, many people are looking for any way to make money. One of the more popular methods is online advertising. However, this can be a very treacherous business. There are many scams out there, and many people are exploited.
2. If you want to make money online, you need to be very careful. There are a lot of scams out there, and many people are losing money.
3. If you are thinking of becoming an online advertiser, you need to be very careful. There are a lot of scams out there.
Paraphrases for Desperate:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
despairing, dire, distraught, hopeless.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
abject, absolute, acute, alarming, anxious, appalling, bereft, bitter, bleak, catastrophic, compelling, critical, deplorable, destitute, devastating, difficult, disastrous, disparate, distressed, distressing, dramatic, drastic, dreadful, eager, extreme, frustrated, harrowing, helpless, horrendous, horrific, impatient, imperative, impoverished, last-ditch, miserable, needy, poignant, precarious, pressing, ready, reckless, sad, serious, severe, terrible, tired, tragic, unfortunate, urgent, urgently, weary, wretched.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
frantic.
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Interjection
despair.
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Adjective
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.
Hyponym for Desperate:
n.
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person
unfortunate person, unfortunate.
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person
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