"desperately" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

desperately adverbio

verbo + desperately
Kolokacji: 71
desperately need • try desperately • desperately want • desperately seek • desperately search • say desperately • fight desperately • ...
desperately + adjetivo
Kolokacji: 24
desperately poor • desperately short • desperately ill • desperately unhappy • desperately afraid • ...
(1) poor, short
Kolokacji: 2
(2) ill, sick
Kolokacji: 2
(3) unhappy, lonely, sad, sorry
Kolokacji: 4
(4) afraid, worried
Kolokacji: 2
1. desperately afraid = rozpaczliwie wystraszony desperately afraid
2. desperately worried = rozpaczliwie martwić się desperately worried
  • Black hair, black brows, dark blue eyes and a white strained haggard face to remind me how desperately worried I was.
  • Fred Clasper, the militant Merseyside convener, was a desperately worried man.
  • Matthew Choak is a desperately worried young man.
  • He came and I had a short talk with him, a grizzled, unimaginative family man of about fifty, desperately worried and entirely at sea over the whole business.
  • Derek returned home a desperately worried person.
  • Fortunately, the autumn sky remained clear as the ship which carried the Rivan King and his desperately worried little wife ran south before a good following breeze.
  • But his mother, desperately worried, sent for him again.
  • You know how desperately worried I've been about you.
  • Five hours later the desperately worried magician rang the hospital to check on their condition.
  • Marc's mother was lovely despite the fact that she was desperately worried and pale with anxiety.
(5) anxious, eager, keen, tired
Kolokacji: 4
(6) hungry, thirsty, homesick
Kolokacji: 3
(7) important, urgent
Kolokacji: 2
(8) wrong, hard, wicked
Kolokacji: 3
(9) needy, impoverished
Kolokacji: 2

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