Synonyms for more desperate
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : des-per-it, -prit |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛs pər ɪt, -prɪt |
Top 10 synonyms for more desperate Other synonyms for the word more desperate
- acute
- at end of one's rope
- atrocious
- audacious
- back to the wall
- can't win
- careless
- climacteric
- concentrated
- crucial
- dead duck
- death-defying
- despairing
- desponding
- devil-may-care
- downcast
- drastic
- exquisite
- foolhardy
- frenzied
- furious
- futile
- gone
- goner
- great
- hard up
- hasty
- hazardous
- headlong
- headstrong
- heinous
- impetuous
- in the soup
- in the toilet
- incautious
- inconsolable
- irrecoverable
- irremediable
- irretrievable
- madcap
- monstrous
- no-chance
- no-way
- no-win
- precipitate
- rash
- risky
- running out of time
- sad
- scandalous
- shocking
- sunk
- terrible
- up against it
- up the creek
- urgent
- useless
- vain
- vehement
- venturesome
- very grave
- vicious
- violent
- wild
- wretched
Définition of more desperate
Origin :- early 15c., "despairing, hopeless," from Latin desperatus "given up, despaired of," past participle of desperare (see despair (v.)). Sense of "driven to recklessness" is from late 15c.; weakened sense of "having a great desire for" is from 1950s. Related: Desperately.
- adj reckless, outrageous
- adj extreme, intense
- adj hopeless
- Nothing could have been more desperate, more furious, than this running battle.
- Extract from : « They of the High Trails » by Hamlin Garland
- He cooked up a plan that was even braver and more desperate.
- Extract from : « The Colors of Space » by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- No more desperate struggle than ours could have been found at any point.
- Extract from : « The Greater Love » by George T. McCarthy
- He says that he has no ready money, that his affairs are more desperate than we imagine.
- Extract from : « The Slave of Silence » by Fred M. White
- "The danger of remaining is more desperate," he interrupted, quickly.
- Extract from : « Under the Rose » by Frederic Stewart Isham
- He did not fire then, but resolved to keep the charge for a more desperate crisis.
- Extract from : « The Young Voyageurs » by Mayne Reid
- Nothing, apparently, could be more desperate than the situation of Paul Jones then.
- Extract from : « Paul Jones » by Hutchins Hapgood
- Never in her humble life had Nakpa been in more desperate straits.
- Extract from : « Indian Child Life » by Charles A. Eastman
- He realized that Jenny was making one more desperate effort to marry him.
- Extract from : « The Intoxicated Ghost » by Arlo Bates
- In the meantime the Widow Gras was getting more and more desperate.
- Extract from : « A Book of Remarkable Criminals » by H. B. Irving
Antonyms for more desperate
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