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desperate
adjective as in reckless, outrageous
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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
“If I lived completely engulfed in my own bubble, I’d probably be desperate,” he says.
For years, phoney modelling agencies have been taking cash from young people desperate for a leg up into the industry, charging hundreds for fake portfolios and jobs that never materialise.
Prosecutors said in a pre-sentencing memo that Williams called in the threat, “after he became overwhelmed with stress and anxiety and desperate to get out of an ongoing meeting.”
He is the proverbial New York sewer rat, cornered and lashing out in a desperate attempt to survive.
Questioning the Corporation's policy of resurrecting old sitcoms, she said: "Why are they doing this sort of thing, they must be desperate."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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