English-Spanish translations for desperate

• desesperado
  Millones de palestinos están desesperados. Millions of Palestinians are desperate.
  Solo viajan al extranjero los que están desesperados. It is only those who are desperate who travel abroad.
  Está desesperado porque la situación de Rusia es desesperante. He is desperate, because Russia's situation is desperate.

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