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Definition of Desperate
Desperate

Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.

Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.

Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.

Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.

One desperate or hopeless.

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Desperate Quotations

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau

Are we not all desperate one way or another?
Taylor Caldwell

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
Horatio Nelson

Desperate Translations

desperate in Dutch is radeloos, wanhopig
desperate in German is verzweifelt
desperate in Italian is disperato
desperate in Norwegian is desperat, fortvilet
desperate in Portuguese is desesperado
desperate in Spanish is desesperado


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