desperate

English

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Etymology

From Latin dēspērātus, past participle of dēspērō (“to be without hope”)

Adjective

desperate (comparative more desperate, superlative most desperate)

1. 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.

2. Reckless abandon in the pursuit of an extreme desire.
3. Extremely intense.

Derived terms

• desperation

Related terms

• despair
• desperado

Translations

filled with despair

Bulgarian: отчаян (bg) Dutch: wanhopig (nl) French: désespéré (fr) German: verzweifelt (de)

Hebrew: מיואש (he) (miuash) Russian: отчаянный (ru) (otčájannyj) Serbo-Croatian: očajan (sh)

desperate

Arabic: يائس (ar) (yaa'is), قانط (ar) (qaaniT) Armenian: անհույս (hy) (anhuys) Bulgarian: безразсъден (bg) (reckless) Chinese: Mandarin: 絕望 (cmn), 绝望 (cmn) (juéwàng) Czech: zoufalý (cs) m. Dutch: radeloos (nl) Finnish: epätoivoinen (fi) French: désespéré (fr) German: verzweifelt (de)

Hebrew: מיואש (he) (miuash) Icelandic: Örvæntingafullur Japanese: 絶望的 (ja) (ぜつぼうてき, zetsubōteki) Portuguese: desesperado(a) Russian: отчаянный (ru) (otčájannyj), безрассудный (ru) (bezrassúdnyj) (reckless) Serbo-Croatian: очајан (sh), očajan (sh), očajnički (sh) Spanish: desesperado (es) m. Vietnamese: tuyệt vọng (vi)

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Latin

Verb

dēspērāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēspērō