Synonyms for desperately
des·per·ate·ly

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1. urgently, desperatelyadverb

   with great urgency

   "health care reform is needed urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash"

   Synonyms:
   urgently

2. desperatelyadverb

   in intense despair

   "the child clung desperately to her mother"

   Synonyms:
   urgently

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1. List of paraphrases for "desperately":

   hopelessly, urgently, badly, frantically, frustratingly, sorely, distressingly, absolutely, disappointingly

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1. Tapan Mishra:

   While unintended consequences of sanctions persist, these delays have a real and tangible impact on the aid that we are able to provide to people who desperately need it.

2. Adam Benforado:

   For me, it was a mix of fear and awe, she wants a straight answer from people and I think that's what people so desperately want. ... It's that genuine real talk that I think is very hard to find on Capitol Hill.

3. Dallas County judge:

   Our hospitals and our people desperately need some time to get bed capacity and doctor capacity up so their hospitals won't be overrun.

4. Thandiwe Newton:

   I've wanted so desperately to apologize every day to darker-skinned actresses, to say ‘I’m sorry that I'm the one chosen, my momma looks like you,'.

5. Zeid Ra'Ad Al Hussein:

   The deliberate starvation of people is unequivocally forbidden as a weapon of warfare. By extension, so are sieges, which deprive civilians of essential goods such as food. And yet over 450,000 people are currently trapped in besieged towns and villages in Syria -- and have been, in some cases, for years, food, medicine and other desperately-needed humanitarian aid is repeatedly obstructed. Thousands of people may have starved to death.