Desperate
Desperate adjective - Feeling or showing no hope.
Usage example: desperate cancer patients who are vulnerable to the claims of unscrupulous quacks
Wretched is a synonym for desperate in hopeless topic. In some cases you can use "Wretched" instead an adjective "Desperate", when it comes to topics like miserable.
Nearby Words: desperately, desperation
Wretched
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- downcast and desperate
- downcast and wretched
- dejected and desperate
- dejected and wretched
- depressed and desperate
- depressed and wretched
- sad and desperate
- sad and wretched
- miserable and desperate
- miserable and wretched
- deplorable and desperate
- deplorable and wretched
- downhearted and desperate
- downhearted and wretched
Both words in one sentence
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No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end.
Source: Contemplate Our Navels - She is desperate to make it out of the war-torn Wretched Hive she lives in.
Source: The One Who Made It Out
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Wretched and Desperate. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/desperate/wretched
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