Desperate vs Paranoid - What's the difference?
desperate | paranoid |
Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.
* (William Shakespeare)
* , chapter=16
, 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.
Of, related to, or suffering from paranoia
Exhibiting extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others
As adjectives the difference between desperate and paranoid
is that desperate is being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless while paranoid is of, related to, or suffering from paranoia.As a noun paranoid is
someone suffering from paranoia.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
Derived terms
* desperationAnagrams
* ----paranoid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Maybe I'm paranoid , but that doesn't mean that they are not out to get me.