Synonyms of desperately

desperately

adverb

ˈde-sp(ə-)rət-lē 

as in extremely

to a great degree

all of a sudden everything went desperately wrong

Synonyms & Similar Words

• extremely
• terribly
• badly
• incredibly
• very
• too
• so
• really
• damn
• damned
• highly
• severely
• seriously
• intensely
• that
• greatly
• far
• especially
• wildly
• fiercely
• heavily
• much
• most
• particularly
• super
• jolly
• awfully
• exceptionally
• absolutely
• sorely
• full
• real
• fantastically
• immensely
• vitally
• mighty
• totally
• specially
• such
• fabulously
• achingly
• extra
• awful
• supremely
• mortally
• good and
• frightfully
• way
• exceedingly
• utterly
• thoroughly
• completely
• hugely
• deeply
• passing
• uncommonly
• sore
• wicked
• enormously
• rattling
• mightily
• remarkably
• dang
• roaring
• eminently
• surpassingly
• vastly
• archly
• positively
• ever
• colossally
• cracking
• whacking
• deadly
• bone
• majorly
• thumping
• almighty
• beastly
• monstrous
• a lot
• filthy
• entirely
• significantly
• roaringly
• spanking
• wholly
• fully
• stinking
• right
• blisteringly
• obviously
• visibly
• radically
• profoundly
• unco
• noticeably
• corking
• considerably
• as all get-out
• downright
• notably
• substantially
• flat-out
• extensively
• palpably
• purely
• plainly
• markedly
• excessively
• altogether
• abundantly
• plentifully
• monumentally
• obscenely
• appreciably
• amazingly
• astonishingly
• discernibly
• monstrously
• astronomically
• grandly
• staggeringly
• overmuch

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• somewhat
• little
• slightly
• nominally
• just
• barely
• hardly
• scarcely
• negligibly
• marginally
• minimally
• scantily
• meagerly

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of desperately

Tuesday’s scene was a mixture of confusion and chaos with first responders fanned out across two catastrophes and television news teams desperately trying to find out whether their journalists were safe. — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Even more horrifying than death was the thought of lying there, trapped beneath the rubble, listening to my two-year-old son desperately crying for help. — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026

The consequence is really mechanical attacking that surprises nobody and desperately needs a rogue element. — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

His son, Teddy, was born nearly a year ago while the Mets were desperately trying to stay in the Wild Card standings. — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 14 Sep. 2026