desperate

1. a. Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. Source: opted

2. a. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune. Source: opted

3. a. Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort. Source: opted

4. a. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality. Source: opted

5. n. One desperate or hopeless. Source: opted

6. adj. arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope Source: wordnet

7. adj. desperately determined Source: wordnet

8. adj. (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair Source: wordnet

9. adj. showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort Source: wordnet

10. adj. showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire Source: wordnet

11. adj. fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless Source: wordnet

12. n. a person who is frightened and in need of help Source: wordnet

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