DESPERATE
\dˈɛspəɹət], \dˈɛspəɹət], \d_ˈɛ_s_p_ə_ɹ_ə_t]\
Definitions of DESPERATE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey on the hopes of the desperate"
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desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict"
By Princeton University
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a person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey on the hopes of the desperate"
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desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.
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Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
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Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.
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One desperate or hopeless.
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Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; - used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
By Oddity Software
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Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.
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Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
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Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.
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One desperate or hopeless.
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Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; - used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Desperately.
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Desperateness.
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In a state of despair: hopeless: beyond hope: fearless of danger: rash: furious.
By Daniel Lyons
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Desperately.
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Desperateness.
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Without care for danger; reckless, as from despair.
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Resorted to in extremity; hazardous; furious.
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Regarded as hopeless; despaired of.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Fearless of danger; furious; without hope; hopeless; lost or almost lost; beyond hope of recovery; done in despair; great in the extreme. See Despair.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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