desperate

Meanings

Adjective

• In dire need of something.
• Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.
• Without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious.
• Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable.
• Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous.
• Extremely intense.

Noun

• A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin dēspērātus, past participle of dēspērō