Thesaurus: desperate

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1. a. Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.
2. a. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
3. a. Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.
4. a. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
5. n. One desperate or hopeless.
6. adj. arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
7. adj. desperately determined
8. adj. (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair
9. adj. showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort
10. adj. showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire
11. adj. fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
12. n. a person who is frightened and in need of help