I think fulfilled might be the opposite of desperate. I think apathetic is the absence but equaniminous and complacent are all quite passive in nature. I think desperation is not just the abscence of but the lack of fulfilment. I think fulfilment involves drive and ambition like desperate but it's the opposite pole. On the other hand fulfilled can merely be satisfied which has the same problems as an opposite as complacent does...
What about enthusiasm? It's like desperation but rather than the absence it has opposite emotional energy?
Isn't being enthusiastic about something like the positive version of desperation?
I guess one could argue that perhaps the absence *is* the opposite
What about enthusiasm? It's like desperation but rather than the absence it has opposite emotional energy?
Isn't being enthusiastic about something like the positive version of desperation?
I guess one could argue that perhaps the absence *is* the opposite