feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with. A desperate
person is a
person that needs or wants something badly. someone who is to hopeless and just gives up. someone who is despairing, hopeless; anguished, distressed, wretched, desolate, forlorn, distraught, fraught; (of an act or attempt) tried in despair or when everything else has failed; having little hope of
success. (of a situation) extremely bad, serious, or dangerous.