A person who is frightened and in need of help.

Polish: desperat

Arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope:
— A desperate cry for help.
— Helpless and desperate--as if at the end of his tether.
— Her desperate screams.

synonym: despairing.

Roget 173: violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant.    turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging etc. v.; troublous^†, riotous; tumultuary^†, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied etc. (insane) 503.    desperate etc. (rash) 863; infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.    fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient.    savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger.    excited etc. v.; unquelled^†, unquenched, unextinguished^†, unrepressed, unbridled, unruly; headstrong, ungovernable, unappeasable, immitigable, unmitigable^†; uncontrollable, incontrollable^†; insuppressible, irrepressible; orgastic, orgasmatic, orgasmic.    spasmodic, convulsive, explosive; detonating etc. v.; volcanic, meteoric; stormy etc. (wind) 349.    ... show more

Roget 471: impossible; not possible etc. 470; absurd, contrary to reason; unlikely; unreasonable etc. 477; incredible etc. 485; beyond the bounds of reason, beyond the bounds of possibility, beyond the realm of possibility; from which reason recoils; visionary; inconceivable etc. (improbable) 473; prodigious etc. (wonderful) 870; unimaginable, inimaginable^†; unthinkable.    impracticable unachievable; unfeasible, infeasible; insuperable; unsurmountable^†, insurmountable; unattainable, unobtainable; out of reach, out of the question; not to be had, not to be thought of; beyond control; desperate etc. (hopeless) 859; incompatible etc. 24; inaccessible, uncomeatable^†, impassable, impervious, innavigable^†, inextricable; self-contradictory.    out of one's power, beyond one's power, beyond one's depth, beyond one's reach, beyond one's grasp; too much for; ultra crepidam [Lat.].    ... show more

Roget 704: difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsome, irksome; operose^†, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner said than done; more easily said than done, easier said than done.    difficult to deal with, hard to deal with; ill-conditioned, crabbed, crabby; not to be handled with kid gloves, not made with rose water.    awkward, unwieldy, unmanageable; intractable, stubborn etc. (obstinate) 606; perverse, refractory, plaguy^†, trying, thorny, rugged; knotted, knotty; invious^†; pathless, trackless; labyrinthine etc. (convoluted) 248; intricate, complicated etc. (tangled) 59; impracticable etc. (impossible) 471; not feasible etc. 470; desperate etc. (hopeless) 859.    embarrassing, perplexing etc. (uncertain) 475; delicate, ticklish, critical; beset with difficulties, full of difficulties, surrounded by difficulties, entangled by difficulties, encompassed with difficulties.    under a difficulty; in a box; in difficulty, in hot water, in the suds, in a cleft stick, in a fix, in the wrong box, in a scrape etc. n., in deep water, in a fine pickle; in extremis; between two stools, between Scylla and Charybdis; surrounded by shoals, surrounded by breakers, surrounded by quicksands; at cross purposes; not out of the wood.    reduced to straits; hard pressed, sorely pressed; run hard; pinched, put to it, straitened; hard up, hard put to it, hard set; put to one's shifts; puzzled, at a loss, etc. (uncertain) 475; at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's rope, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, at a standstill; graveled, nonplused, nonplussed, stranded, aground; stuck fast, set fast; up a tree, at bay, aux abois [Fr.], driven into a corner, driven from pillar to post, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall; au bout de son Latin; out of one's depth; thrown out.    accomplished with difficulty; hard-fought, hard-earned.    ... show more

Roget 859: hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir [Fr.], forlorn, desolate; inconsolable etc. (dejected) 837; broken hearted.    unpromising, unpropitious; inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over.    out of the question, not to be thought of; impracticable etc. 471; past hope, past cure, past mending, past recall; at one's last gasp etc. (death) 360; given up, given over.    incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy; incorrigible; irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable; ruined, undone; immitigable.    ... show more

Roget 863: rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating^†; heedless; careless etc. (neglectful) 460; without ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy etc. (inattentive) 458; wanton, reckless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care.    hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained^†; headlong, headstrong; breakneck; foolhardy; harebrained; precipitate, impulsive.    overconfident, overweening; venturesome, venturous; adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier; janty^†, jaunty, free and easy.    off one's guard etc. (inexpectant) 508^†.    ... show more

Roget 31: great; greater etc. 33; large, considerable, fair, above par; big, huge etc. (large in size) 192; Herculean, cyclopean; ample; abundant; etc. (enough) 639 full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high; signal, at its height, in the zenith.    world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive; wholesale; many etc. 102.    goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.   ; important etc. 642; unsurpassed etc. (supreme) 33; complete etc. 52.    august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic etc. (repute) 873.    vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible; marvelous etc. 870.    unlimited etc. (infinite) 105; unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression, fabulous.    undiminished, unabated, unreduced^†, unrestricted.    absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect, finished.    remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest; noteworthy; renowned.    ... show more

Polish: desperacki, rozpaczliwy

Desperately determined.

synonym: do-or-die.

Polish: zdesperowany

of persons Dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair.

Showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort:
— Made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber.
— The desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war.

synonym: heroic.

Showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire.

Fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless:
— A desperate illness.
— On all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel.

synonym: dire.