desperate

desperate
adj
1. reckless, rash, precipitate, hasty, overhasty, impetuous; ill-conceived, headlong, breakneck, madcap, foolhardy, harebrained; incautious, imprudent, indiscreet, injudicious; dangerous, risky, hazardous, death-defying, daring, bold; frantic, mad, violent, wild, passionate, frenzied, frenetic; furious, infuriated, rabid, rampant, raging, turbulent, tumultuous.
2. urgent, compelling, pressing; acute, critical, crucial; perilous, hazardous, precarious.
3. beyond hope, hopeless, despaired of, lost, irredeemable; beyond recovery, irrecoverable, irrevocable, past curé, incurable, irremediable, remediless; beyond repair, irreparable, irretrievable, irreclaimable; serious, grave, fatal, deadly.
4. shocking, outrageous, intolerable, bad; deplorable, lamentable, distressing, woeful.
5. great, intense, extreme, excessive, extravagant; supreme, monstrous, prodigious, all-out; final, ultimate, last-ditch, do-or-die; futile, useless.
6. despairing, yielding, giving up, grasping at straws; despondent, inconsolable, wretched, suicidal; downcast, forlorn, broken-hearted.

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