adj.
VERBS
▪ be , feel , look , seem , sound
▪ become , get
▪
I was starting to get ~.
▪ make sb
▪
The sudden loss of his money had made him ~.
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪ really , truly
▪ absolutely , utterly
▪
She felt utterly ~.
▪ increasingly
▪ almost
▪ a little , slightly , etc.
PREPOSITION
▪ about
▪
I felt ~ about my future.
Desperate is used with these nouns: ↑ appeal , ↑ attempt , ↑ bid , ↑ circumstance , ↑ craving , ↑ cry , ↑ desire , ↑ effort , ↑ fight , ↑ gamble , ↑ hope , ↑ loneliness , ↑ longing , ↑ look , ↑ lunge , ↑ measure , ↑ move , ↑ need , ↑ plea , ↑ plight , ↑ remedy , ↑ scramble , ↑ search , ↑ shortage , ↑ situation , ↑ state , ↑ strait , ↑ struggle , ↑ tiredness , ↑ trouble , ↑ urge , ↑ urgency , ↑ wish , ↑ yearning