English Dictionary

desperate

/ˈdɛsp(ə)ɹət/

adj

In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire. / Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless. / Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.

She was desperate for a job.

意味（1）

In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.

I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperate for food.

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.

a desperate disease; desperate fortune

意味（4）

Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness.

In England his flute was not in request; there were no convents; and he was forced to have recourse to a series of desperate expedients.

意味（5）

Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.

a desperate offendress against nature

意味（6）

Intense; extremely intense.

She enraged some country ladies with three times her money, by a sort of desperate perfection which they found in her.