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A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc.
adjective
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In dire need of something.
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I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperate for food.
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Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.
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I was so desperate at one point, I even went to see a loan shark.
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Without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious.
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a desperate effort
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Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable.
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a desperate disease; desperate fortune
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Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous.
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Extremely intense.
Examples of desperate in a Sentence
By now, he had to be desperate to get rid of her.
I was desperate to get away from there!
I was desperate to learn more details about the crime.
The police were desperate to find her.
She must have been desperate to make him sleep on his own.
In Spite of this success, however, it was not until the end of the month, and after desperate fighting, that the French penetrated within the walls and the defence ceased (June 29).
She held him tightly, desperate for the reassurance of his touch.
Most were rotten to the core, jaded or desperate, because that's the way he liked them.
You were desperate and you made a mistake.
In Africa the Moorish prince, Firmus, raised the standard of revolt, being joined by the provincials, who had been rendered desperate by the cruelty and extortions of Count Romanus, the military governor.
She packed, repacked, pressed, made the butler's assistant and Petya--whom she had drawn into the business of packing--press on the lid, and made desperate efforts herself.
Allen swallowed again, almost cringing as he licked his lips and turned desperate eyes on Lisa.
With indefatigable energy he at once attempted to grapple with the difficulties of the situation, waging an almost desperate struggle with sloth, corruption and incompetence.
Despite his desperate shouts that used to seem so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the air, and disobeying orders.
He made desperate efforts to conciliate the population, and succeeded with a few of the nobles, who were led to believe in the possibility of an Italian confederation, including Lombardy and Venetia which would be united to Austria by a personal union alone; but the immense majority of all classes rejected these advances, and came to regard union with Piedmont with increasing favor.
The cart was loaded high, and at the very top, beside a child's chair with its legs in the air, sat a peasant woman uttering piercing and desperate shrieks.
As he was going along a foot path across a wide- open space adjoining the Povarskoy on one side and the gardens of Prince Gruzinski's house on the other, Pierre suddenly heard the desperate weeping of a woman close to him.
Like Kepler and all his contemporaries he believed in astrology, and he certainly also had some faith in the power of magic, for there is extant a deed written in his own handwriting containing a contract between himself and Robert Logan of Restalrig, a turbulent baron of desperate character, by which Napier undertakes "to serche and sik out, and be al craft and ingyne that he dow, to tempt, trye, and find out" some buried treasure supposed to be hidden in Logan's fortress at Fastcastle, in consideration of receiving one-third part of the treasure found by his aid.
Do you think I'm that desperate or are you implying your reputation is that good?
It took an instant for her eyes to adjust to the dim coop interior, and then she found herself staring into the desperate eyes of a red fox.
Why burn that bridge when she might get desperate enough to cross it?
Maybe she would get desperate enough to agree with that some day.
All were from women who sounded desperate just to talk to the strange man who owned this condo.
Her face warmed at how desperate she'd been for a single drop of him, to feel him inside her while his fangs sank into her neck.
From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats.
She had been reluctant to mention her idea before, but now she was desperate enough to risk his anger.
You will soon learn that those who lose deals with me are a desperate lot.
He steadied himself with his hands on his knees for a moment, panting; then opened a bottle and started to drink, fast; desperate to find oblivion.
Jackson shook violently, desperate to summon self-control, while every part of him yearned to cry out with the utter horror coursing through his mind.
So the swishing sound of the strokes, and the desperate but unnatural screams, continued.
She squeezed by him, desperate to leave the tension of the bedroom.
The condition of the church seemed desperate, unless it could be purged of crying scandals of the subjection of the papacy to the great Roman nobles, of its subordination to the German emperor and of its internal demoralization.
Timokhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by surprise, the French had thrown down their muskets and run.
He rode in angry agitation toward him, firmly grasping his whip and fully prepared to take the most resolute and desperate steps to punish his enemy.
Her cheeks flushed again and in her desperate search for something to explain her preoccupation, she plunged into the subject of the curtains.
I also know I'm feeling desperate right about now.
Santarosa was killed, apparently because he was too miserable and desperate to care to save his life, when the Egyptian troops attacked the island of Sphacteria, near Navarino, on the 8th of May 1825.
The return of Crispi to powera return imposed by public opinion as that of the only man capable of dealing with the desperate situationmarked the turning-point of the crisis.
Since the ball he had felt the approach of a fit of nervous depression and had made desperate efforts to combat it.
One desperate, frightened yell from the first French soldier who saw the Cossacks, and all who were in the camp, undressed and only just waking up, ran off in all directions, abandoning cannons, muskets, and horses.
After several months of desperate fighting, Saigo and a small remnant of his followers made a swif t retreat to Kagoshima, and fell fighting (September 14) within sight of their homes.
He's desperate to ask Martha about the details of Annie's death but she, Quinn and Claire haven't reported in.
In a desperate battle, the natives were defeated with great slaughter, and the territory surrounding the town was divided into ranches, in which the conquered natives had to labour.
She used what strength she had to roll onto her back, desperate for a Healer.
Prince Andrew rode up and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle.
Murad now laid siege to Constantinople to avenge himself on the emperor, and on the 24th of August the desperate valour of the defenders succeeded in driving back an assault led by a band of fanatical dervishes.
On the 11th of May he made a desperate attack upon Aldgate, followed by soo men.
These organizations are typically in desperate need of volunteers who are willing to devote their time to youngsters in need of love and guidance.
The closer it gets to our wedding day, the more desperate he gets.
He took part in the desperate defence of Warsaw against Prince Paskievich (September 6-7,1831).