Horrified vs Desperate - What's the difference?
horrified | desperate |
Struck with horror.
* 2003 , John E. Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic , page 358
(horrify)
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.
As adjectives the difference between horrified and desperate
is that horrified is struck with horror while desperate is being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.As a verb horrified
is (horrify).horrified
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- No one was more horrified than Chauncey Goodrich, scion of an old, elite family in Hartford
Verb
(head)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