| desperate | 1. Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. "I am desperate of obtaining her." (Shak) 2. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune. 3. Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort. "Desperate expedients." 4. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality. "A desperate offendress against nature." (Shak) "The most desperate of reprobates." (Macaulay) Synonym: Hopeless, despairing, desponding, rash, headlong, precipitate, irretrievable, irrecoverable, forlorn, mad, furious, frantic. Origin: L. Desperatus, p. P. Of desperare. See Despair, and cf. Desperado. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| desperate | a person who is frightened and in need of help |
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| desperate | showing extreme courage |
| desperate | fraught with extreme danger |
| desperate | showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire |
| desperate | arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope |
| desperate | desperately determined |
| desperate | (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair |
| desperate | a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) |
| desperate | desperate actions taken as a means to an end |
| desperate | a state of extreme distress |
| desperate | with great urgency |
| desperate | in intense despair |
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