Definition of Desperate

  • (a.) Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.
  • (a.) Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
  • (a.) Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.
  • (a.) Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
  • (n.) One desperate or hopeless.

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