Synonyms of the word

desperate

• adj. Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.
• adj. Without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious.
• adj. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable.
• adj. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous.
• adj. Extremely intense.
• adj. In need of something very much.

brave

• adj. Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
• adj. (obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
• adj. Making a fine show or display.
• n. (dated, possibly offensive) A Native American warrior.
• n. (obsolete) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
• n. (obsolete) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
• v. (transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.

courageous

• adj. Of a person, displaying or possessing courage.
• adj. Of an action, that requires courage.

critical

• adj. Inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
• adj. Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
• adj. Extremely important.
• adj. Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
• adj. (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition…
• adj. Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
• adj. Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes…
• n. A critical value, factor, etc.
• n. In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.

dangerous

• adj. Full of danger.
• adj. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
• adj. (colloquial, dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
• adj. (obsolete) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
• adj. (obsolete) Reserved; not affable.

despairing

• adj. Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.
• v. present participle of despair.
• n. A mood or display of despair.

dire

• adj. Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
• adj. Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
• adj. Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.
• adj. (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.

do-or-die

• adj. (idiomatic) Requiring a determined or desperate effort to avoid the consequences of failure.

heroic

• adj. Of or relating to a hero or heroine; supremely noble.
• adj. Courageous; displaying heroism.

hopeless

• adj. Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
• adj. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
• adj. Without talent, not skilled.

imperative

• adj. essential.
• adj. (grammar) of, or relating to the imperative mood.
• adj. (computing theory) Having a semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
• adj. Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.
• n. (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative…
• n. (countable, grammar) A verb in imperative mood.
• n. (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.

resolute

• adj. Firm, unyielding, determined.
• adj. (obsolete) Convinced; satisfied; sure.

unfortunate

• adj. not favored by fortune.
• adj. marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
• n. An unlucky person.

unsafe

• adj. Not safe; dangerous.