What is another word for desperate?
753 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ dˈɛspəɹət], [ dˈɛspəɹət], [ d_ˈɛ_s_p_ə_ɹ_ə_t]Table of Contents
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)
- 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 synonyms
- downhearted
- frenzied
- other relevant words
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.
- 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.
-
•
- 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.
Paraphrases for Desperate:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
despairing, hopeless, dire, distraught.
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Adjective
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Independent
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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.
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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
Antonyms for Desperate:
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adj.
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extreme, intense
good, nice, gentle, unimportant, trivial.
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reckless, outrageous
unworried, moderate, secure, satisfied, meek, content, contented, calm, peaceful, quiet, hopeful, mild, afraid, satisfactory, timid, shy, confident, weak.
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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.
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extreme, intense
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:
Hyponym for Desperate:
n.
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person
unfortunate person, unfortunate.
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person