transcription, транскрипция: [ despərət ]
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you are desperate , you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
Troops are needed to help get food into Kosovo where people are in desperate need...
He made a desperate attempt to hijack a plane.
ADJ
• des‧per‧ate‧ly
Thousands are desperately trying to leave their battered homes.
ADV : ADV with v
2.
If you are desperate for something or desperate to do something, you want or need it very much indeed.
They’d been married nearly four years and June was desperate to start a family...
People are desperate for him to do something.
ADJ : v-link ADJ , usu ADJ to-inf , ADJ for n
• des‧per‧ate‧ly
He was a boy who desperately needed affection.
ADV : ADV with v
3.
A desperate situation is very difficult, serious, or dangerous.
India’s United Nations ambassador said the situation is desperate...
= dire
ADJ