Desperate

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  • adjective. Having lost all hope; despairing.
  • adjective. Marked by, arising from, or showing despair.
  • adjective. Reckless or violent because of despair.
  • adjective. Undertaken out of extreme urgency or as a last resort.
  • adjective. Nearly hopeless; critical.
  • adjective. Suffering or driven by great need or distress.
  • adjective. Extremely intense.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having no hope; hopeless; despairing.
  • Without care for safety; extremely rash; reckless from despair, passion, or ferocity: as, a desperate man.
  • Done or resorted to without regard to consequences, or in the last extremity; showing despair or recklessness; extremely hazardous: as, a desperate undertaking; desperate remedies.
  • Beyond hope of recovery; irretrievable; irremediable; hopeless: as, desperate fortunes; a desperate situation or condition.
  • Such as to be despaired of; extremely difficult to do, manage, cure, or reclaim.
  • Synonyms and Headlong, violent, mad, wild, furious, frantic.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.
  • adjective. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous
  • adjective. Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious.
  • adjective. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
  • noun. One desperate or hopeless.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.
  • adjective. Having reckless abandon in the pursuit of an extreme desire.
  • adjective. Extremely intense.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. desperately determined
  • noun. a person who is frightened and in need of help
  • adjective. showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire
  • adjective. arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
  • adjective. fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
  • adjective. (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair
  • adjective. showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort
    • Equivalent
    brave  courageous  critical  dangerous  hopeless  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    foolish  frantic  furious  hopeless  passionate  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Dionysiac  accident-prone  aching for  acute  affording no hope  
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