LekhoriLekhoriIn dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperate for food.
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.
Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.
Desperately.
A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc.
From Middle English desperat(e) (“desperate”), borrowed from Latin dēspērātus, perfect passive participle of dēspērō (“to be without hope”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun is derived fr...
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a desperate disease; desperate fortune