desperation
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3.7
- noun
- /ˌdɛspəˈreɪʃən/
:
desesperación
- When she faced him, there was a hint of desperation in her eyes.
- an act of desperation
- in desperation
- quiet desperation
And one day out of pure necessity and desperation, I couldn't continue to.
- And one day out of pure necessity and desperation, I couldn't continue to.
- And this is especially true if he, if he senses desperation on your part, right?
- Young people's lives are filled with sadness and desperation and anarchy and chaos.
- If if Russia in desperation launched nuclear missiles,
- So he tells us that her life is marked by inner desperation, right?
- And the third reason was I noticed a hint of desperation in their voices.
- And he in desperation proposed packets of energy.
- And then I started doing it out of just desperation to find some way of pausing thought.
- Because the desperation and despair breeds consumerism.
- There's some people doing stuff out of desperation.
- It just, yeah, I mean, it was kind of out of desperation.
- Now here's the thing, though, underneath it all, there was some desperation.
Examples
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He stole food out of desperation after losing his job.
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The flight engineer was paging through a manual, a look of quiet desperation on his face.
Fiction book (1991) -
There was a confidence about them and a desperation to do well.
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So, she says in her fit of desperation, you have a hall pass.
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But out of that desperation, something happened that was so amazing.
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Out of desperation he reached into the cash register and took $5.
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Who else can I turn to in my desperation, madame?
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If we feel we are in a place of desperation, yeah, we should be resourceful.
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In desperation, he sought work at your father's mill.
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That's what happens when you act out of desperation.
Synonyms
210
3.5
A complete loss of hope
28
4.1
A feeling that nothing will get better
1
6.7
A strong feeling of urgent need and hopelessness that makes you try extreme actions
Antonyms
How Desperate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Desperation comes from Latin parts de- 'without' and sperare 'to hope', and it is the same idea behind the word despair. So, desperation is a strong 'without hope' feeling that can make people take big risks.