more desperate

adjreckless, outrageous
adjextreme, intense
adjhopeless

Synonyms for more desperate

adj reckless, outrageous

Antonyms for more desperate

Word Origin & History

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.

Example Sentences for more desperate

Nothing could have been more desperate, more furious, than this running battle.

He cooked up a plan that was even braver and more desperate.

No more desperate struggle than ours could have been found at any point.

He says that he has no ready money, that his affairs are more desperate than we imagine.

"The danger of remaining is more desperate," he interrupted, quickly.

He did not fire then, but resolved to keep the charge for a more desperate crisis.

Nothing, apparently, could be more desperate than the situation of Paul Jones then.

Never in her humble life had Nakpa been in more desperate straits.

He realized that Jenny was making one more desperate effort to marry him.

In the meantime the Widow Gras was getting more and more desperate.