alone vs desperate

alone

adj
  • By oneself, solitary. 

  • Lacking peers who share one's beliefs, experiences, practices, etc. 

adv
  • Not requiring anything further; merely. 

  • By oneself; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo. 

  • Without outside help. 

  • Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset. 

  • Not permitting anything further; exclusively. 

desperate

adj
  • Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless. 

  • Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable. 

  • In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire. 

  • Intense; extremely intense. 

  • Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous. 

  • Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness. 

noun
  • A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc. 

How often have the words alone and desperate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )