desperate vs unfortunate
unfortunate vs desperatedesperate and unfortunate both are nouns.
desperate and unfortunate both are adjectives.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| desperate | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| unfortunate | Yes | Yes | No | No |
As nouns,
unfortunate is a hypernym of
desperate; that is, unfortunate is a
word with a broader meaning than desperate:
- desperate: a person who is frightened and in need of help
- unfortunate: a person who suffers misfortune
Other hypernyms of desperate include
unfortunate person.
| desperate (noun) | unfortunate (noun) |
|---|---|
| a person who is frightened and in need of help | a person who suffers misfortune |
| desperate (adjective) | unfortunate (adjective) |
|---|---|
| showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune |
| fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | not auspicious; boding ill |
| arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | unsuitable or regrettable |
| showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire | |
| desperately determined | |
| (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair |
Words related to "desperate"
Words related to "unfortunate"
- Ishmael
- Job
- abandoned person
- abject
- actor
- amputee
- auspiciousness
- black
- calamitous
- captive
- castaway
- choker
- crier
- desperate
- disastrous
- diseased person
- dispossessed
- doer
- doomed
- downtrodden
- failure
- fatal
- fateful
- fortunate
- griever
- hapless
- have-not
- homeless
- homeless person
- ill-fated
- ill-omened
- ill-starred
- inauspicious
- infelicitous
- jinx
- jonah
- lamenter
- languisher
- loser
- luckless
- maroon
- miserable
- misfortunate
- mourner
- nonstarter
- nympholept
- outcast
- pariah
- pathetic
- piteous
- pitiable
- pitiful
- poor
- poor person
- prisoner
- propitiousness
- regrettable
- roofless
- schlimazel
- shlimazel
- sick person
- sorrower
- subsister
- sufferer
- survivor
- too bad
- underprivileged
- unfortunate person
- unhappy
- unlucky
- unpromising
- unsuccessful
- unsuccessful person
- victim
- weeper
- worker
- wretched
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