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more desperate

ADJECTIVE

reckless, outrageous

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bold dangerous daring determined frantic frenzied furious violent

STRONG

madcap precipitate rash wild

WEAK

atrocious audacious careless death-defying devil-may-care foolhardy hasty hazardous headlong headstrong heinous impetuous incautious monstrous risky scandalous shocking venturesome

Antonyms

STRONGEST

afraid calm cowardly fearful meek mild moderate peaceful quiet shy timid weak

WEAK

confident content contented hopeful satisfactory satisfied secure unworried

ADJECTIVE

extreme, intense

Synonyms

STRONGEST

critical dire fierce furious great terrible urgent violent

STRONG

acute climacteric

WEAK

concentrated crucial drastic exquisite vehement very grave vicious

Antonyms

STRONGEST

calm gentle good mild moderate nice peaceful trivial unimportant

WEAK

confident content contented hopeful satisfactory satisfied secure unworried

ADJECTIVE

hopeless

Synonyms

STRONGEST

despondent forlorn futile sad vain

STRONG

downcast goner

WEAK

at end of one's rope back to the wall can't win dead duck despairing desponding gone hard up in the soup in the toilet inconsolable irrecoverable irremediable irretrievable no-chance no-way no-win running out of time sunk up against it up the creek useless wretched

Antonyms

STRONGEST

cheerful happy hopeful joyful

WEAK

calm confident content contented satisfactory satisfied secure unworried

Example Sentences

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“The more he stretches the truth in the name of the sale, the more desperate he becomes. Once inside our living room, however, he is far more malignant than any of that.”

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

Even if diplomacy brings a truce rather than an enduring peace, stopping the fighting on almost any terms looks better than prolonging a war that grows ever more desperate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

There have been weeks of stern, and sometimes fiery, rhetoric where each side sought to paint the other as the more desperate party.

From BBC • May 9, 2025

But recently, our inboxes have fewer queries for dispassionate data and more desperate questions about travel, safety and rights.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2025

At this point, my parents were more desperate than they'd ever been.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi