DESPERATENESS Synonyms

• extreme mental distress

• extreme distress of body or mind

• suffer great pains or distress

• cause emotional anguish or make miserable

• (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic

• a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune

• a state in which all hope is lost or absent

• the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well

• abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart

• a state in which all hope is lost or absent

• desperate recklessness

• psychological suffering

• a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)

• extreme physical pain

• the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim

• bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

• cause mental pain to

• feelings of great warmth and intensity

• the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up

• the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals

• an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts

• a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized

• powerlessness revealed by an inability to act

• the state of needing help from something

• a feeling of being unable to manage

• the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success

• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

• a feeling of intense unhappiness

• emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

• the state of being sad

• the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

• an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement

• sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

• something that causes great unhappiness

• the state of being sad

• feel grief

• unbearable physical pain

• extreme mental distress

• intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain

• a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented

• a severe affliction

• the act of harassing someone

• torment emotionally or mentally

• treat cruelly

• subject to torture

• the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity

• pressing importance requiring speedy action

• an urgent situation calling for prompt action

• insistent solicitation and entreaty

• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

• the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant

• the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry