"desperate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

desperate adjetivo

desperate + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 155

desperate need • desperate attempt • Desperate Housewife • desperate effort • desperate situation • desperate measure • ...

verbo + desperate

Kolokacji: 6

grow desperate • feel desperate • sound desperate • become desperate • look desperate • ...

adverbio + desperate

Kolokacji: 11

increasingly desperate • most desperate • pretty desperate • truly desperate • equally desperate • ...

Kolokacji: 2

Grup znaczeniowych: 3

Kolokacji: 6

(2) most, truly

Kolokacji: 2

(3) pretty, somewhat, slightly

Kolokacji: 3

1. pretty desperate = całkiem zrozpaczony pretty desperate

2. somewhat desperate = nieco zrozpaczony somewhat desperate

3. slightly desperate = trochę zrozpaczony slightly desperate

I don't really buy most his arguments in that piece and he sounds more like a slightly desperate apologist than an insightful commentator.
If all this has a slightly desperate feel to it, it's because both parties are feeling slightly desperate.
The show has had its ups and downs, but it has never lost its slightly desperate edge.
Feeney sat behind Eve's desk, looking bemused and slightly desperate.
When the young man looked uncertain, the boy's voice took on a slightly desperate edge of pleading.
I thought I heard a slightly desperate accent on the word "must."
"I'm wasting my time," he muttered in a dazed, slightly desperate voice.
Looking at 400 pictures of one city may give you the slightly desperate sense that you should just go outdoors and see the place itself.
Whether the Chicago Bulls are more dangerous or slightly desperate will not be known for a while.
But "Mockingbird" begins on a facile, slightly desperate note.

desperate + preposición

Kolokacji: 6

desperate for • desperate in • desperate to • desperate with • desperate at • ...

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