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feeling or showing that you have little hope and are ready to do anything without worrying about danger to yourself or others. The prisoners grew increasingly desperate. Stores are getting desperate after two years of poor sales. Somewhere out there was a desperate man, cold, hungry, hunted.
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Definitions of 'desperate' 1. If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it. [...] 2. If you are desperate for something or desperate to do something, you want or need it very much indeed. [...] 3. A desperate situation is very difficult, serious, or dangerous. [...] More.
desperate adjective (NEEDING SOMETHING) B2. needing or wanting something very much: By two o'clock I was desperate for something to eat. desperate adjective (BAD) A desperate situation is very bad or serious: The economy is in a really desperate situation. desperately. adverb. desperation. noun [ U ] uk / ˌdesp ə ˈreɪʃ ə n / us.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēspērātus, past participle of dēspērō (“to be without hope”).
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ˈdɛsp(ə)ɹət/
Adjective
desperate (comparative more desperate, superlative most desperate) 1. In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire. 1.1. I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperatefor food. 1.2. desperate to eat; desperatefor attention 2. Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless. 2.1. I was so desperateat one point, I even went to see a loan shark. 2.1. c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories,...
Adjective
desperate 1. plural and definite singular attributive of desperat
Verb
dēspērāte 1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēspērō
References
1. “desperate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press 2. desperate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Adjective
desperate 1. definite singular of desperat 2. plural of desperat
Verb
desperate 1. second-person singular voseo imperative of desperar combined with te
reckless or dangerous because of despair or urgency: a desperate killer. having an urgent need, desire, etc.: desperate for attention. leaving little or no hope; very serious or dangerous: a desperate illness. extremely bad; intolerable or shocking: clothes in desperate taste. extreme or excessive.
adjective. 1feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with:a desperate sadness enveloped Ruth. More example sentences. Obviously this risks failure to treat in situations that are desperate but not hopeless.
