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desperate
adjective as in reckless, outrageous
Strong matches
Weak matches
atrocious, audacious, careless, death-defying, devil-may-care, foolhardy, hasty, hazardous, headlong, headstrong, heinous, impetuous, incautious, monstrous, risky, scandalous, shocking, venturesome
adjective as in extreme, intense
adjective as in hopeless
Strongest matches
despondent, forlorn, futile, sad, vain
Weak matches
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-win, running out of time, sunk, up against it, up the creek, useless, wretched
Example Sentences
The plot centers on thousands of impoverished Indian farmers who commandeer a fleet and sail, dirty, uncivilized and desperate, to France, where a small resistance is all that stands in the way from their overrunning the country.
The Bengals have been a bit more up and down lately, but they’re desperate.
He said he cared deeply about his patients - like other pharmacy teams - but he has never experienced a situation as desperate as this.
“No one deserves the fate of being executed and then set on fire in the middle of the desert in a desperate attempt by a killer to cover up his crimes.”
It is a temporary casino and very sad and desperate in its energy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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