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desperate

English

🔊 showing extreme courage
“made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber”
🔊 fraught with extreme danger
“a desperate illness”
🔊 showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire
“felt a desperate urge to confess”
🔊 desperately determined
“do-or-die revolutionaries”
🔊 (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair
“a desperate criminal”
🔊 arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
“a despairing view of the world situation”
🔊 a person who is frightened and in need of help
“they prey on the hopes of the desperate”