desperate
adjective
[ ˈdɛsp(ə)rət ]
• feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with.
• "a desperate sadness enveloped Ruth"
Similar:
despairing,
hopeless,
anguished,
distressed,
in despair,
suicidal,
miserable,
wretched,
desolate,
forlorn,
disheartened,
discouraged,
demoralized,
devastated,
downcast,
resigned,
defeatist,
pessimistic,
distraught,
fraught,
overcome,
out of one's mind,
at one's wits' end,
beside oneself,
at the end of one's tether,
dolorous,
• (of a person) having a great need or desire for something.
• "I am desperate for a cigarette"
Similar:
in great need of,
urgently requiring,
craving,
in want of,
lacking,
wanting,
eager,
aching,
longing,
yearning,
hungry,
thirsty,
thirsting,
itching,
crying out,
desirous,
dying,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘in despair’): from Latin desperatus ‘deprived of hope’, past participle of desperare (see despair).
