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desperate    音標拼音: [d'ɛsprɪt] [d'ɛspɚɪt]
a. 不顧死活的,危急的,令人絕望的,極渴望的

不顧死活的,危急的,令人絕望的,極渴望的

desperate
adj 1: arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope; "a
despairing view of the world situation"; "the last
despairing plea of the condemned criminal"; "a desperate
cry for help"; "helpless and desperate--as if at the end
of his tether"; "her desperate screams" [synonym:
{despairing}, {desperate}]
2: desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-
or-die conflict" [synonym: {desperate}, {do-or-die(a)}]
3: (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency
or despair; "a desperate criminal"; "taken hostage of
desperate men"
4: showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously
undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last
desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate
gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point
in the Pacific war"- G.C.Marshall; "they took heroic measures
to save his life" [synonym: {desperate}, {heroic}]
5: showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of
great need or desire; "felt a desperate urge to confess"; "a
desperate need for recognition"
6: fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate
illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate
situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire
emergency" [synonym: {desperate}, {dire}]
n 1: a person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey
on the hopes of the desperate"

Desperate \Des"per*ate\, n.
One desperate or hopeless. [Obs.]
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Desperate \Des"per*ate\, a. [L. desperatus, p. p. of desperare.
See {Despair}, and cf. {Desperado}.]
1. Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. [Obs.]
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I am desperate of obtaining her. --Shak.
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2. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous;
irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely
dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
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3. Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard
to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate
effort. "Desperate expedients." --Macaulay.
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4. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the
extreme predominance of a bad quality.
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A desperate offendress against nature. --Shak.
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The most desperate of reprobates. --Macaulay.

Syn: Hopeless; despairing; desponding; rash; headlong;
precipitate; irretrievable; irrecoverable; forlorn; mad;
furious; frantic.
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111 Moby Thesaurus words for "desperate":
Dionysiac, accident-prone, aching for, acute, affording no hope,
amok, apathetic, atrocious, bacchic, baffled, balked, berserk,
bleak, breakneck, careless, cheerless, climacteric, comfortless,
compelling, concentrated, corybantic, craving, critical, crucial,
crying, dangerous, desirous of, despairing, despondent, desponding,
devil-may-care, dire, disconsolate, dismal, exquisite, fierce,
foiled, foolhardy, forlorn, frantic, frenetic, frenzied,
frustrated, furious, grave, great, grim, hard pressed, hard up,
harum-scarum, hasty, hazardous, headlong, heinous, hopeless,
hotheaded, hurried, impetuous, in despair, in desperate straits,
in extremis, in extremities, like one possessed, mad, madding,
maenadic, maniac, maniacal, monstrous, overeager, overenthusiastic,
overzealous, panic-stricken, perilous, pinched, precarious,
precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, pressing, rabid, raging,
ranting, rash, raving, raving mad, reckless, running wild,
scandalous, serious, shocking, slap-bang, slapdash, sorely pressed,
stark-raving mad, straitened, tenuous, terrible, thwarted,
uncontrollable, unhopeful, up against it, urgent, vehement,
venturesome, vicious, violent, wanton, wild, without hope,
wretched

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