Attainable vs Desperate - What's the difference?
attainable | desperate |
Anything that can be attained.
* 1971 , Murray Friedman, Overcoming middle class rage (page 223)
Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.
* (William Shakespeare)
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, title= Without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious.
* Macaulay
Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable.
Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous.
* (William Shakespeare)
* Macaulay
Extremely intense.
As adjectives the difference between attainable and desperate
is that attainable is able to be achieved, accomplished or obtained while desperate is being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.As a noun attainable
is anything that can be attained.attainable
English
Noun
(en noun)- So is good housing and medical care and all the other attainables which lead to a better life.
desperate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Since his exile she hath despised me most, / Forsworn my company and rail'd at me, / That I am desperate of obtaining her.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
- desperate expedients
- a desperate offendress against nature
- the most desperate of reprobates