Desperate

Adjective

 * 1) Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.
 * I was so desperate at one point, I even went to see a loan shark.
 * 1) Reckless abandon in the pursuit of an extreme desire.
 * 2) Extremely intense.

Adverbs for Desperate
tragically; wildly; mutely; savagely; hefplessly; grimly; appallingly; suddenly; dismally; dumbly; comically; inwardly; proudly; madly; pitifully; fatally; frantically; cruelly; curiously; awfully; miserably; shockingly; fearfully; obstreperously; ungovernably; excitedly; hysterically; rashly; recklessly.

Synonyms for Desperate
reckless, foolhardy, mad, careless, bold, audacious, rash, furious, determined, hopeless, critical, extreme, irretrievable, frantic.

Antonyms for Desperate
calm, confident, hopeful, peaceful, quiet, contented, satisfied, secure, cautious.

Derived terms

 * desperate for
 * desperation

Related terms

 * despair
 * desperado

Thesaurus
Dionysiac, accident-prone, aching for, acute, affording no hope, amok, apathetic, atrocious, bacchic, baffled, balked, berserk, bleak, breakneck, careless, cheerless, climacteric, comfortless, compelling, concentrated, corybantic, craving, critical, crucial, crying, dangerous, desirous of, despairing, despondent, desponding, devil-may-care, dire, disconsolate, dismal, exquisite, fierce, foiled, foolhardy, forlorn, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, frustrated, furious, grave, great, grim, hard pressed, hard up, harum-scarum, hasty, hazardous, headlong, heinous, hopeless, hotheaded, hurried, impetuous, in despair, in desperate straits, in extremis, in extremities, like one possessed, mad, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, monstrous, overeager, overenthusiastic, overzealous, panic-stricken, perilous, pinched, precarious, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, pressing, rabid, raging, ranting, rash, raving, raving mad, reckless, running wild, scandalous, serious, shocking, slap-bang, slapdash, sorely pressed, stark-raving mad, straitened, tenuous, terrible, thwarted, uncontrollable, unhopeful, up against it, urgent, vehement, venturesome, vicious, violent, wanton, wild, without hope, wretched

Etymology
From desperatus:, past participle of despero:

Translations

 * Bulgarian: отчаян
 * Dutch:
 * French: désespéré
 * German:


 * Hebrew: מיואש
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: očajan


 * Arabic: يائس, قانط
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hebrew: מיואש
 * Icelandic: Örvæntingafullur
 * Japanese: 絶望的
 * Portuguese: desesperado(a)
 * Russian:, безрассудный
 * Serbo-Croatian: очајан, očajan, očajnički
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: tuyệt vọng

Anagrams

 * departees