Desperation

What do we mean by desperation?

The condition of being desperate. noun

Recklessness arising from despair. noun

A despairing; hopelessness; despair. noun

A desperate state of mind, either active or passive; recklessness arising from failure or misfortune; despairing rashness or fury: as, deeds of desperation. noun

Synonyms See despair. noun

The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope. noun

A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury. noun

The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope. noun

A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury. noun

Desperate recklessness noun

A state in which all hope is lost or absent noun

The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.

A state of despair, or utter hopelessness; abandonment of hope

Reckless fury.

Wanting or needing something so badly that you will do anything, even if its immoral, illegal, degrading, self-humiliating, or in poor taste. Urban Dictionary

1. a desperate state of mind. 2. in dire staits. 3. in need of a bathroom. Urban Dictionary

A convenient anagram of 'a rope ends it'. Urban Dictionary

Adjective. used to describe something of lesser quality, but will fill the need in desperate times. Urban Dictionary

Being so hard-up to insult someone that you start going after their typos; or the same typo multiple times. Urban Dictionary

"Desperism" : The action of publicly ruining your personal reputation through a desperate or humiliating act in order to preserve a flawed ideology, statement of innocence or ill reputed corporate mandate. Urban Dictionary

Feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with. A desperate person is a person that needs or wants something badly. someone who is to hopeless and just gives up. someone who is despairing, hopeless; anguished, distressed, wretched, desolate, forlorn, distraught, fraught; (of an act or attempt) tried in despair or when everything else has failed; having little hope of success. (of a situation) extremely bad, serious, or dangerous. Urban Dictionary

1. feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with. 2 (of a person) having a great need or desire for something. Urban Dictionary

When you want a hoodie or cuddles, but you look like too much of a rat to even get a boyfriend. Urban Dictionary

Someone who wants something so bad they will go to extreme lengths to get it. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to desperation:
desperation, respiration, desecration, asperation, desertion, despection, seperation, depuration, desideration, deaeration, despeciation, deuteration, disoperation, despumation, reoperation, desucration, dejeration.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word desperation:
heave, hail, frustration, throws, desperate, agrees, asks, hoping, anger, suicide, fail, save, drives, loved, tries, destroy, sword, hopes, escape, herself, pass, moves, violent, caught, find, songwriter, help, fear, hope, try.

Words that rhyme with desperation:
communication, information, operation, education, implication, station, innovation, organization, application, foundation, consideration, accommodation, association, relation, connotation, aberration, corporation, aspiration, orientation, remuneration, consternation, correlation, alliteration, administration, trepidation, obligation, discrimination, generation, reconciliation, inspiration, situation, revelation, evaluation, determination, civilization, nation, vacation, collaboration, radiation, motivation, integration, abomination, precipitation, appreciation, gentrification, dissertation, collocation, designation, interpretation, compensation, ramification, conversation, configuration, proliferation, expectation, manifestation, indignation, litigation, cooperation, notation, inclination, pronunciation, anticipation, deviation, implementation, approbation, sensation, altercation, constellation, affirmation, remediation, reputation, transportation, vocation, obfuscation, representation, medication, transformation, translation, conservation, adaptation, presentation, population, conflagration, reservation, dedication, citation, salvation, rehabilitation, location, meditation, preparation, observation, segregation, articulation, variation, abbreviation, quotation, edification, mitigation.

Adjectives that are often used to describe desperation:
extreme, total, quiet, sheer, such, utter, economic, very, certain, wild, sudden, financial, near, final, frantic, utmost, pure, real, reckless, greater, hopeless, mere, absolute, complete, blind, silent, sullen, mad, fierce, grim, helpless, angry, equal, apparent, savage, greatest, terrible, nervous, bitter, inner, emotional, furious, frenzied, obvious, perfect, mock, suicidal, lonely, ultimate, noisy, comic, pathetic, strange, genuine, heroic, blackest, intense, dogged, stubborn, hysterical, calm, futile, evident, gentle, fatal, controlled, gloomy, holy, underlying, feverish, weary.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective desperation:
moon.

Words that sound like desperation:
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