All desperation synonyms

noun desperation

• hopelessness — providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate: a hopeless case of cancer.
• heartache — emotional pain or distress; sorrow; grief; anguish.
• gloom — total or partial darkness; dimness.
• melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
• anxiety — Anxiety is a feeling of nervousness or worry.
• pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
• agony — Agony is great physical or mental pain.
• sorrow — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
• grief — keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
• discomfort — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
• despair — Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
• misery — wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
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• anguish — Anguish is great mental suffering or physical pain.
• desolation — Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
• unhappiness — sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
• madness — the state of being mad; insanity.
• defiance — Defiance is behaviour or an attitude which shows that you are not willing to obey someone.
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• dejection — Dejection is a feeling of sadness that you get, for example, when you have just been disappointed by something.
• despondency — Despondency is a strong feeling of unhappiness caused by difficulties which you feel you cannot overcome.
• pang — a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing: a pang of remorse; a pang of desire.
• depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• concern — Concern is worry about a situation.
• torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
• worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• distraction — the act of distracting.
• carelessness — not paying enough attention to what one does: a careless typist.
• recklessness — utterly unconcerned about the consequences of some action; without caution; careless (usually followed by of): to be reckless of danger.
• frenzy — extreme mental agitation; wild excitement or derangement.
• heedless — careless; thoughtless; unmindful: Heedless of the danger, he returned to the burning building to save his dog.
• foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
• impetuosity — the quality or condition of being impetuous.
• nervousness — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
• harassment — the act or an instance of harassing, or disturbing, pestering, or troubling repeatedly; persecution: She sued her boss for sexual harassment.
• rashness — acting or tending to act too hastily or without due consideration.