Definition for
desperate
– Having no hope; hopeless; despairing.
– Without care for safety; extremely rash; reckless from despair, passion, or ferocity: as, a desperate man.
– Done or resorted to without regard to consequences, or in the last extremity; showing despair or recklessness; extremely hazardous: as, a desperate undertaking; desperate remedies.
– Beyond hope of recovery; irretrievable; irremediable; hopeless: as, desperate fortunes; a desperate situation or condition.
– Such as to be despaired of; extremely difficult to do, manage, cure, or reclaim.
– Synonyms and Headlong, violent, mad, wild, furious, frantic.
adjective – Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.
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