The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word DIRE , but the solution may also be DOORDIE which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in LA Times).
Desperate crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| DIRE | 67 % | 4 |
| DOORDIE | 19 % | 7 |
| INDIRENEED | 4 % | 10 |
| LASTGASP | 3 % | 8 |
| LASTDITCH | 3 % | 9 |
| FRANTIC | 3 % | 7 |
| HARDUP | 1 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Desperate
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- despairing
- dire
- hopeless
- dangerous
- unsafe
- brave
- courageous
- critical
- do-or-die
- resolute
- fearless
- imperative
Crossword Answer definitions
DIRE adjective- Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
- Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
- Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal
- Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result DIRE
- Harrowing
- Kind of straits
- Urgent
- Critical
- Like some straits
- Serious
- Macabre
- Straits or consequences preceder
- Very urgent
- Disastrous
More clues leading to the result DOORDIE
- Indomitable
- Desperate
- Desperate, as an attempt
- Desperate, as a situation
- All-important
- Like a Hail Mary
- Like a desperation effort
- Critical
- Choice words for those out of options
- Like a Hail Mary pass
More clues leading to the result INDIRENEED
More clues leading to the result LASTGASP
- Kind of effort
- Desperation tactic
- Extremely desperate
- Desperate
- Final critical moment
- Sign of desperation
- Like a desperate effort
- Like a Hail Mary pass
- End
- Desperate final effort
More clues leading to the result LASTDITCH
- Like some efforts
- Kind of effort
- Desperate
- Desperate, as an effort
- Where bitter-enders fight.
- Position of desperation.
- Done in desperation
More clues leading to the result FRANTIC
- Crazed
- Wild with emotion
- Desperate
- Wrought-up
- Far beyond antsy
- Overwrought
- Greatly agitated.
- Beside oneself.
- Distracted.
- Frenzied.