The meaning of Desperate

adjective

Having an ache in a part of one's body.

Usage examples:

The cool air was a relief to my aching head

verb

Suffer from a continuous dull pain.

Usage examples:

My legs ached from the previous day's exercise

verb

Present participle of ache

Usage examples:

My head/tooth/back aches., i ache/i'm aching all over., i've got one or two aching muscles after ye…

adjective

Experiencing or expressing severe mental or physical pain or suffering.

Usage examples:

He gave an anguished cry

verb

Be extremely distressed about something.

Usage examples:

I spent the next two weeks anguishing about whether i'd made the right decision

adjective

Having or showing extreme pain or suffering

Usage examples:

The anguished song at the end was beautiful

noun

A powerful desire for something.

Usage examples:

A craving for chocolate

verb

Feel a powerful desire for (something).

Usage examples:

If only she had shown her daughter the love she craved

noun

A strong or uncontrollable desire

Usage examples:

We had a craving for zucchini bread.

noun

A person who expects or is excessively ready to accept failure.

Usage examples:

It also appeals to defeatists, cynics, and worldly-wise men who are not prepared to try to change t…

adjective

Demonstrating expectation or acceptance of failure.

Usage examples:

We have a duty not to be so defeatist

adjective

Having no hope and expecting to fail

Usage examples:

Being defeatist will get us nowhere., he's got such a defeatist attitude., i can't believe it - you…

adjective

Having lost confidence or hope; disheartened.

Usage examples:

How do you motivate demoralized employees?

verb

Cause (someone) to lose confidence or hope.

Usage examples:

The general strike had demoralized the trade unions

adjective

Having lost your confidence, enthusiasm, and hope

Usage examples:

After the game, the players were tired and demoralized.

adjective

Having or characterized by desire.

Usage examples:

The pope was desirous of peace in europe

adjective

Wanting something

Usage examples:

The duke is desirous of meeting you.

adjective

(of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness.

Usage examples:

A desolate pennine moor

verb

Make (a place) appear bleakly empty.

Usage examples:

The droughts that desolated the dry plains

adjective

(of a place) having no living things; empty

Usage examples:

A desolate landscape, when her son left for a year abroad, she felt desolate.

adjective

Showing the loss of all hope.

Usage examples:

He gave a despairing little shrug

verb

Lose or be without hope.

Usage examples:

We should not despair

adjective

Showing or feeling that there is no hope and that you can do nothing to improve a difficult or worrying situation

Usage examples:

A despairing glance/cry, with every day that passed he became ever more despairing.

verb

Destroy or ruin.

Usage examples:

The city was devastated by a huge earthquake

adjective

Completely destroyed

Usage examples:

Thousands of people have left their devastated villages and fled to the mountains., she was utterly…

adjective

Having lost confidence or enthusiasm; disheartened.

Usage examples:

He must be feeling pretty discouraged

verb

Cause (someone) to lose confidence or enthusiasm.

Usage examples:

Tedious regulations could discourage investors

adjective

Having lost determination or confidence; dispirited.

Usage examples:

A disheartened tone of voice

verb

Cause (someone) to lose determination or confidence.

Usage examples:

The farmer was disheartened by the damage to his crops

adjective

Having lost confidence, hope, and energy

Usage examples:

She was very disheartened by the results of the test., after several setbacks it's hard not to grow…

adjective

Suffering from extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain.

Usage examples:

I was distressed at the news of his death

verb

Cause (someone) anxiety, sorrow, or pain.

Usage examples:

I didn't mean to distress you

adjective

Distressed debts, etc. are sold to investors at very low prices because there is a high risk that the company owing them will be unable to pay them back. investors buy them because they hope to get back more from the company owing the money than they have paid for the debts

Usage examples:

The texas-based firm buys distressed assets from financial institutions and liquidates them at a pr…

adjective

(of a person's eyes) looking downwards.

Usage examples:

Her modestly downcast eyes

noun

A shaft dug in a mine for extra ventilation.

Usage examples:

The probable explanation is, that the return air was leaking across into the downcast shaft at vari…

adjective

Looking down, usually because of being shy or sad

adjective

On the point of death.

Usage examples:

He visited his dying mother

verb

(of a person, animal, or plant) stop living.

Usage examples:

He died of tuberculosis

Present participle of die

adjective

Strongly wanting to do or have something.

Usage examples:

The man was eager to please

adjective

Having or showing desire or interest

Usage examples:

Lots of eager volunteers responded to the appeal for help.

adjective

Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.

Usage examples:

Forlorn figures at bus stops

adjective

Looking or feeling alone and sad because you need help but do not expect to get it

Usage examples:

As i left little bobby on his first day of school, he gave me such a forlorn look.

adjective

Feeling or causing despair.

Usage examples:

Jess looked at him in mute hopeless appeal

adjective

Without hope

Usage examples:

We tried to save the building, but it was a hopeless task (= it could not succeed).

adjective

Feeling or showing the need for food.

Usage examples:

I was feeling ravenously hungry

adjective

Feeling the need to eat because there has been a period of time when you have not eaten

Usage examples:

The children are always hungry when they get home from school., they were poor and often went to be…

suffix

Having a great need or wish for the stated thing

Usage examples:

Capital-/cash-/money-hungry, energy-/power-hungry the energy-hungry transportation sector was weak …

verb

Be the site of or cause an itch.

Usage examples:

The bite itched like crazy

noun

An uncomfortable sensation on the skin that causes a desire to scratch.

Usage examples:

But shortly after ben began eating his lunch, his child-care provider noticed he seemed to be tryin…

noun

An uncomfortable sensation on the skin that causes a desire to scratch.

Usage examples:

But shortly after ben began eating his lunch, his child-care provider noticed he seemed to be tryin…

adjective

Not available or in short supply.

Usage examples:

Adequate resources are sadly lacking

verb

Be without or deficient in.

Usage examples:

The novel lacks imagination

adjective

If something that you need is lacking, you do not have enough of it

Usage examples:

Enthusiasm has been sadly lacking these past months at work., he's totally lacking in charm.

noun

A yearning desire.

Usage examples:

Miranda felt a wistful longing for the old days

adjective

Having or showing a yearning desire.

Usage examples:

Her longing eyes

verb

Have a strong wish or desire.

Usage examples:

She longed for a little more excitement

adjective

(of a person) wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable.

Usage examples:

Their happiness made anne feel even more miserable

adjective

Very unhappy, or causing much unhappiness

Usage examples:

They can make your life miserable if they want to., the forecast is for miserable weather today.

adjective

Tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen.

Usage examples:

He was pessimistic about the prospects

adjective

Thinking that bad things are more likely to happen or emphasizing the bad part of a situation

Usage examples:

The tone of the meeting was very pessimistic., the doctors are pessimistic (= not hopeful) about hi…

adjective

Having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot do anything about.

Usage examples:

My response is a resigned shrug of the shoulders

verb

Voluntarily leave a job or office.

Usage examples:

He resigned from the company in protest of the treatment of his co-workers

adjective

Willing to accept something unpleasant

Usage examples:

They are resigned and a little depressed at the thought of losing money for at least the first year.

adjective

Deeply unhappy or depressed and likely to commit suicide.

Usage examples:

Far from being suicidal, he was clearly enjoying life

adjective

Having the tendency to want to kill yourself

Usage examples:

The union leader argued that a strike now would be suicidal.

verb

Have a strong desire for something.

Usage examples:

An opponent thirsting for revenge

noun

A feeling of needing or wanting to drink something.

Usage examples:

They quenched their thirst with spring water

phrasal verb

To feel very strongly that you want and need a particular thing

Usage examples:

To be thirsting for justice/truth/adventure

adjective

Feeling a need to drink.

Usage examples:

The guides were hot and thirsty

adjective

Needing to drink something

Usage examples:

She was very thirsty but took only a few sips of water., fig. always thirsty for power, he would do…

adjective

Lacking in a required or necessary quality.

Usage examples:

They weren't wanting in confidence

verb

Have a desire to possess or do (something); wish for.

Usage examples:

I want an apple

adjective

Missing

Usage examples:

It was a perfect party – nothing was wanting.

adjective

(of a person) in a very unhappy or unfortunate state.

Usage examples:

I felt so wretched because i thought i might never see you again

adjective

Unhappy or extremely sad

Usage examples:

He looked so ill and wretched as he spoke that he made me feel wretched myself., workers lived in w…

noun

A feeling of intense longing for something.

Usage examples:

He felt a yearning for the mountains

adjective

Involving or expressing yearning.

Usage examples:

A yearning hope

verb

Have an intense feeling of longing for something, typically something that one has lost or been separated from.

Usage examples:

She yearned for a glimpse of him