Desperate
Desperate adjective - Feeling or showing no hope.
Horrible and desperate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Horrible" instead an adjective "Desperate".
Nearby Words: desperately, desperation
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- monstrous and desperate
- monstrous and horrible
- outrageous and desperate
- outrageous and horrible
- wretched and desperate
- wretched and horrible
- deplorable and desperate
- deplorable and horrible
- vicious and desperate
- vicious and horrible
- heinous and desperate
- heinous and horrible
- terrible and desperate
- terrible and horrible
Both words in one sentence
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Since it's such a horrible and desperate situation they're in, she forgives her husband.
Source: Film / Blindness -
You can see on the face of this little child what you see on the faces of all in hell — despair, desperate and horrible!
Source: Fire and Brimstone Hell -
Russell T Davies is more desperate to be included in the 50th anniversary than the former Doctors, and throws out a bunch of horrible ideas to work himself into the plot.
Source: Adam Westing
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