Desperate and Pleading

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Desperate adjective - Feeling or showing no hope.

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Pleading is an antonym for desperate.

Nearby Words: desperately, desperation

Pleading adjective - Asking humbly.

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Desperate is an antonym for pleading.

Nearby Words: plead, plea, pleaded, pleader, pleadingly

We remember each and every moment of yearning, of desperate need, the anguish that comes when no amount of beseeching earns a single instant's reprieve, no pleading yields a moment's mercy.

Source: Literature / Dust of Dreams
Having somehow convinced Madeline Bassett he's desperately pining away for her while actually pleading for Gussie Fink-Nottle, Bertie spends the next several books desperate to keep Madeline and Gussie together lest Madeline decide to make Bertie a "happy" man instead.

Source: Literature / Jeeves and Wooster
Word of God was desperate, almost pleading, for it to be canon, because, to his thinking, bad canon was better than no canon.

Source: Discontinuity / Live-Action TV

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