a.
1.
Despairing, hopeless, desponding, despondent, without hope.
2.
Wretched, forlorn, beyond hope, irretrievable, past cure, hopeless, despaired of, lost beyond recovery.
3.
Extreme, prompted by despair, heroic, done as a last resort or in defiance of consequences.
4.
Rash, reckless, precipitate, headlong, frantic, despairing.
5.
( Colloq. ) Great, extreme, prodigious, monstrous, supreme.