DESPERATELY

urgently, desperately

(adverb) with great urgency; “health care reform is needed urgently”; “the soil desperately needed potash”

desperately

(adverb) in intense despair; “the child clung desperately to her mother”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

---

Etymology

Adverb

desperately (comparative more desperately, superlative most desperately)

In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly.

extremely

Usage notes

Some verbs commonly collocating with desperately: need, try, seek, do with

Source: Wiktionary

---

Des"per*ate*ly, adv.

Definition: In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately. She fell desperately in love with him. Addison.

DESPERATE

Des"per*ate, a. Etym: [L. desperatus, p. p. of desperare. See Despair, and cf. Desperado.]

1. Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. [Obs.] 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." Macaulay.

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.

Syn.

– Hopeless; despairing; desponding; rash; headlong; precipitate; irretrievable; irrecoverable; forlorn; mad; furious; frantic.

Des"per*ate, n.

Definition: One desperate or hopeless. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

---

Do you know this game?

Wordscapes is a popular word game consistently in the top charts of both Google Play Store and Apple App Store. The Android version has more than 10 million installs. This guide will help you get more coins in less than two minutes of playing the game. Continue reading Wordscapes: Get More Coins