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desperate    音标拼音: [d'ɛsprɪt] [d'ɛspɚɪt]
a. 不顾死活的,危急的,令人绝望的,极渴望的

不顾死活的,危急的,令人绝望的,极渴望的

desperate
adj 1: arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope; "a
despairing view of the world situation"; "the last
despairing plea of the condemned criminal"; "a desperate
cry for help"; "helpless and desperate--as if at the end
of his tether"; "her desperate screams" [synonym:
{despairing}, {desperate}]
2: desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-
or-die conflict" [synonym: {desperate}, {do-or-die(a)}]
3: (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency
or despair; "a desperate criminal"; "taken hostage of
desperate men"
4: showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously
undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last
desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate
gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point
in the Pacific war"- G.C.Marshall; "they took heroic measures
to save his life" [synonym: {desperate}, {heroic}]
5: showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of
great need or desire; "felt a desperate urge to confess"; "a
desperate need for recognition"
6: fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate
illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate
situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire
emergency" [synonym: {desperate}, {dire}]
n 1: a person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey
on the hopes of the desperate"

Desperate \Des"per*ate\, n.
One desperate or hopeless. [Obs.]
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Desperate \Des"per*ate\, a. [L. desperatus, p. p. of desperare.
See {Despair}, and cf. {Desperado}.]
1. Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. [Obs.]
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I am desperate of obtaining her. --Shak.
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2. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous;
irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely
dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
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3. Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard
to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate
effort. "Desperate expedients." --Macaulay.
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4. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the
extreme predominance of a bad quality.
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A desperate offendress against nature. --Shak.
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The most desperate of reprobates. --Macaulay.

Syn: Hopeless; despairing; desponding; rash; headlong;
precipitate; irretrievable; irrecoverable; forlorn; mad;
furious; frantic.
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111 Moby Thesaurus words for "desperate":
Dionysiac, accident-prone, aching for, acute, affording no hope,
amok, apathetic, atrocious, bacchic, baffled, balked, berserk,
bleak, breakneck, careless, cheerless, climacteric, comfortless,
compelling, concentrated, corybantic, craving, critical, crucial,
crying, dangerous, desirous of, despairing, despondent, desponding,
devil-may-care, dire, disconsolate, dismal, exquisite, fierce,
foiled, foolhardy, forlorn, frantic, frenetic, frenzied,
frustrated, furious, grave, great, grim, hard pressed, hard up,
harum-scarum, hasty, hazardous, headlong, heinous, hopeless,
hotheaded, hurried, impetuous, in despair, in desperate straits,
in extremis, in extremities, like one possessed, mad, madding,
maenadic, maniac, maniacal, monstrous, overeager, overenthusiastic,
overzealous, panic-stricken, perilous, pinched, precarious,
precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, pressing, rabid, raging,
ranting, rash, raving, raving mad, reckless, running wild,
scandalous, serious, shocking, slap-bang, slapdash, sorely pressed,
stark-raving mad, straitened, tenuous, terrible, thwarted,
uncontrollable, unhopeful, up against it, urgent, vehement,
venturesome, vicious, violent, wanton, wild, without hope,
wretched


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  • DESPERATE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    The meaning of DESPERATE is having lost hope How to use desperate in a sentence Synonym Discussion of Desperate
  • DESPERATE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    DESPERATE definition: 1 very serious or bad: 2 very great or extreme: 3 needing or wanting something very much: Learn more
  • DESPERATE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    Desperate definition: reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency See examples of DESPERATE used in a sentence
  • Desperate - definition of desperate by The Free Dictionary
    1 reckless or dangerous because of despair or urgency: a desperate killer 2 having an urgent need, desire, etc : desperate for attention 3 very serious or dangerous: a desperate situation 4 giving all: a desperate attempt 5 extreme or excessive: desperate haste 6 undertaken out of despair or as a last resort
  • DESPERATE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
    A desperate situation is very difficult, serious, or dangerous India's United Nations ambassador said the situation is desperate I decided not to abandon John when he was in such a desperate position
  • What does Desperate mean? - Definitions. net
    Desperate refers to a state of despair or hopelessness, typically causing or involving a frantic or reckless effort to do or achieve something It is feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with It can also mean having a great need or desire for something
  • Desperate - Definition, Meaning Synonyms - Vocabulary. com
    Desperate means "having lost all hope " If you are desperate for food, it means you are starving, possibly about to die If you are in a desperate situation, it means things are really, really bad
  • Desperate Definition Meaning - YourDictionary
    Marked by, arising from, or showing despair The desperate look of hunger; a desperate cry for help Driven to or resulting from loss of hope; rash or violent because of despair A desperate criminal Despairing; without hope Offering so little chance, as for improvement, as to cause despair; extremely dangerous or serious A desperate illness
  • desperate adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage . . .
    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 I heard sounds of a desperate struggle in the next room
  • Desperate Definition Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
    DESPERATE meaning: 1 : very sad and upset because of having little or no hope feeling or showing despair; 2 : very bad or difficult to deal with





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