DESPERATION

n. 1 recklessness, impetuosity, rashness, foolhardiness, imprudence, heedlessness Penniless and half-starved, he was driven to desperation and stole a loaf of bread 2 despair, anxiety, anguish, anxiousness, despondency, depression, dejection, discouragement, defeatism, pessimism, hopelessness, distress, misery, melancholy, wretchedness, gloom, sorrow In a final act of desperation, he attempted suicide