Definitions For Desperate
noun
- A person who is frightened and in need of help
adjective
- Showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort
- Fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
- Showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire
- Arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
- Desperately determined
- (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair
Is Desperate a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
YES
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
12
Words with Friends
13
The word Desperate is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 13 points in Words with Friends
Examples of Desperate in a Sentence
- The collapse of her business had made her desperate.
- As the supply of food ran out, people became desperate.
- We could hear their desperate cries for help.