English-Czech translations for desperate

• zoufalý
  Není-li respektována zákonnost, riskujeme invazi milionů zoufalých lidí na palubu. If legality is not respected, we risk an invasion of millions of desperate people in flight.
  Bylo by však chybné dívat se na teroristické činy pouze jako na skutky zoufalých jednotlivců. It would, however, be a mistake to view acts of terror exclusively as the deeds of desperate individuals.

Definition of desperate

• In dire need of something
• Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless
• Without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious
• Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable
• Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous
• Extremely intense
• A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc

Examples

• I hadnt eaten in two days and was desperate for food.
• I was so desperate at one point, I even went to see a loan shark
• a desperate effort
• a desperate disease;  desperate fortune

Related words

• desperately
• desperate times call for desperate measures
• desperate times require desperate measures
• desperate cuts must have desperate cures
• desperate needs lead to desperate deeds
• desperate act
• desperately boring