desperate

切望している、どうしても必要としている

何かを強く望んでいる、またはどうしても必要としている。

やさしい英語で： 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?

使い方： desperate for something (They were desperate for clean drinking water.); desperate to do something (He was desperate to find a job.)

類義語： eager, very keen

よく使う表現： desperate for something, desperate to leave, desperate need

必死の、絶望的な

ほかに選択肢がないと思い、危険を承知でする行動を表す。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： last-ditch

よく使う表現： desperate attempt, desperate measures, desperate effort

絶望した、希望のない

何も助けにならず、状況もよくならないと感じている。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： hopeless, despairing

反対語： hopeful

よく使う表現： feel desperate, desperate people, become desperate

絶望的な、深刻な

状況が極めて悪く、よくなる見込みがほとんどない。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： dire, critical, hopeless

よく使う表現： desperate situation, desperate conditions, desperate poverty

絶望的な、危機的な

非常に危険または深刻で、よい結果をほとんど期待できない。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： dire, hopeless, critical

よく使う表現： desperate situation, desperate condition, desperate circumstances