desperate

avide, impatient

Qui veut quelque chose très fortement ou en a un besoin urgent.

En anglais simple : If you feel like this, you want or need something very badly.

• I'm desperate for some sleep.
• She was desperate to see her family.
• Are you still desperate for help with the move?

Comment l'utiliser : desperate for something (They were desperate for clean drinking water.); desperate to do something (He was desperate to find a job.)

Synonymes : eager, very keen

Expressions courantes : desperate for something, desperate to leave, desperate need

désespéré

Qualifie une action risquée qu’on entreprend parce qu’on pense ne pas avoir d’autre choix.

En anglais simple : An action like this is risky but taken because there seems to be no other choice.

• It was a desperate attempt to escape.
• They took desperate measures to save the business.
• His desperate gamble failed, and the team lost.

Synonymes : last-ditch

Expressions courantes : desperate attempt, desperate measures, desperate effort

désespéré

Qui a le sentiment que rien ne peut l’aider et que la situation ne s’améliorera pas.

En anglais simple : Feeling that nothing can help you and that things will not improve.

• She felt desperate and alone.
• They became desperate after losing their home.
• He was so desperate that he begged strangers for help.

Synonymes : hopeless, despairing

Contraires : hopeful

Expressions courantes : feel desperate, desperate people, become desperate

désespéré, critique

Qualifie une situation extrêmement mauvaise, avec peu d’espoir d’amélioration.

En anglais simple : A situation like this is extremely bad, with little hope of improvement.

• The situation is desperate.
• Many families were living in desperate poverty.
• Conditions became desperate after the food supplies ran out.

Synonymes : dire, critical, hopeless

Expressions courantes : desperate situation, desperate conditions, desperate poverty

désespéré, critique

Si dangereux ou grave qu’il reste peu d’espoir d’une issue favorable.

En anglais simple : So dangerous or bad that there is little hope of a good result.

• The situation is desperate.
• The hospital faced a desperate shortage of medicine.
• Flooding left the village in desperate circumstances.

Synonymes : dire, hopeless, critical

Expressions courantes : desperate situation, desperate condition, desperate circumstances