Word Meaning

Meaning of "desperate" and the crossword clue

- Frantic
- Hopeless
- In dire straits
- 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.