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/dɛspəˈɹɑːdəʊ/ · noun
A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West..
The kind of persons who excite or give signal to such revolutions — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.
Surely this was the face of a desperado.
The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.
Use desperado when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Desperado means A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West..
Common synonyms include desperate criminal.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The kind of persons who excite or give signal to such revolutions — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.
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