Desperate
Crossword Clue and Answers
Looking for answers to the "Desperate" crossword clue? it's your lucky day, we have them! Today we have 12 crossword solutions for Desperate.
We most recently saw this clue in The New York Times Crossword.
We deem Desperate to be a UNCOMMON crossword clue as we have not seen it regularly in many crossword publications.
If you have a moment we'd love for you to join our growing crossword community and contribute some answers of your own.
Publications
- The New York Times Crossword - Saturday, 9 Dec 2017
Crossword Answers
4 letters
DIRE
Causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
6 letters
HEROIC
Having or displaying qualities appropriate for heroes; "the heroic attack on the beaches of Normandy"; "heroic explorers"
7 letters
DRASTIC
Forceful and extreme and rigorous; "drastic measures"
DOORDIE
DOORDIE
FRANTIC
Excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration"; "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied look in his eye"
8 letters
HOPELESS
Certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"
RECKLESS
Marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest"
LASTGASP
The point of death or exhaustion or completion; "the last gasp of the cold war"
9 letters
LASTDITCH
10 letters
DESPAIRING
Arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope; "a despairing view of the world situation"; "the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal"; "a desperate cry for help"; "helpless and desperate--as if at the end of his tether"; "her desperate screams"
INDIRENEED