Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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desperate | Yes | Yes | No | No |
despair | Yes | No | Yes | No |
desperate (noun) | despair (noun) |
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a person who is frightened and in need of help | the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well |
a state in which all hope is lost or absent |
desperate (adjective) | despair (adjective) |
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showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | |
fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | |
arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | |
showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire | |
desperately determined | |
(of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair |
desperate (verb) | despair (verb) |
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abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart |