OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 20473

desperate

/ˈdɛsp(ə)ɹət/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
desesperado
Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.
I was so desperate at one point, I even went to see a loan shark.
Since his exile she hath despised me most, Forsworn my company and rail'd at me, That I am desperate of obtaining her.
acuciante • apremiante • desesperado
Intense; extremely intense.
For Liverpool, it capped six days of desperate disappointment after missing out on the Premier League to Manchester City by a single point then losing to this experienced, street-s…
She enraged some country ladies with three times her money, by a sort of desperate perfection which they found in her.