Vocabulary
Desperately
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
in a way that shows despair.
Urdu meaning
نڈر،بے خوفی کے ساتھ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
Sentences are selected from stored editorial text where your search word appears. If none appear yet, run the admin sentence generator for fuller coverage.
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It is no secret now that Trump wants out of this war more desperately than his adversary.
Dawn Editorials —
How it ends
— 2026-04-23
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The government lurched from one fiscal crisis to the next, eyes fixed on the IMF programme, ignoring the energy transition the country desperately needed.
Dawn Editorials —
Energy crisis as catalyst
— 2026-04-09
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People who love Karachi the way you love someone who is failing desperately, helplessly, with nowhere to put it.The anger is always there, just beneath the surface.
Dawn Editorials —
Coming home
— 2026-03-29
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Pakistan desperately needs creative destruction but not just the kind being advocated.
Dawn Editorials —
Hierarchy of failure
— 2026-02-14
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It offers a framework of governance that modern policy desperately needs.
Dawn Editorials —
What the mountains can teach us
— 2026-01-24
Synonyms
in desperation, in despair, despairingly, in anguish, in distress, miserably, wretchedly
Curator example
“he looked around desperately”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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