"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
(5) anxious, eager, keen, tired
Kolokacji: 4
1. desperately anxious = rozpaczliwie pełny niepokoju desperately anxious
2. desperately eager = rozpaczliwie chętny desperately eager
  • The trick in New York is to be desperately eager to cross the street.
  • She was desperately eager to relive with this stranger her time in the Nest.
  • He was desperately eager to reach the top, where someone or something wonderful waited for him, yet he did not want to get there.
  • I shouted, desperately eager for someone to meet my challenge.
  • They stared at each other; shy, embarrassed, both desperately eager to reach out to someone new.
  • He had spoken quickly, without thinking, and looked desperately eager for her idea.
  • In her preliminary interviews, she is finding women who are desperately eager to talk about their experiences.
  • Most of us are desperately eager to find precisely such guidelines.
  • The 28-year-old Wolfe was desperately eager to be published.
  • He turned toward the bank of glass elevators, desperately eager to join his bride.
3. desperately keen = rozpaczliwie chętny desperately keen
4. desperately tired = rozpaczliwie zmęczony desperately tired
(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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