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单词 desperate
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desperate

adjective
 
/ˈdespərət/
/ˈdespərət/
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  1.  
    feeling or showing that you have little hope and are ready to do anything without worrying about danger to yourself or others
    • The prisoners grew increasingly desperate.
    • Stores are getting desperate after two years of poor sales.
    • Somewhere out there was a desperate man, cold, hungry, hunted.
    • I heard sounds of a desperate struggle in the next room.
    Extra Examples
    • I was starting to get desperate.
    • She felt utterly desperate.
    • The sudden loss of his money had made him desperate.
    Topics Feelingsb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • feel
    • look
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    preposition
    • about
    See full entry
  2.  
    [usually before noun] (of an action) giving little hope of success; tried when everything else has failed
    • He made a desperate bid for freedom.
    • She clung to the edge in a desperate attempt to save herself.
    • His increasing financial difficulties forced him to take desperate measures.
    • Doctors were fighting a desperate battle to save the little girl's life.
    Extra Examples
    • a desperate search for a way out
    • Jake held up his hands in a desperate plea for calm.
    • Kaleil's final, desperate efforts to save the business come to naught.
    Topics Difficulty and failureb2
  3.  
    [not usually before noun] needing or wanting something very much
    • desperate for something He was so desperate for a job he would have done anything.
    • (informal) I'm desperate for a cigarette.
    • to be desperate for money/help/cash/attention
    • desperate to do something I was absolutely desperate to see her.
    • She was desperate to escape small town life.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • feel
    • look
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    preposition
    • about
    See full entry
  4.  
    (of a situation) extremely serious or dangerous
    • The children are in desperate need of love and attention.
    • They face a desperate shortage of clean water.
    • His financial situation was desperate.
    • He had died in desperate poverty.
    • American farmers are in desperate straits today.
    Topics Dangerb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • feel
    • look
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    preposition
    • about
    See full entry
  5. Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘in despair’): from Latin desperatus ‘deprived of hope’, past participle of desperare, from de- ‘down from’ + sperare ‘to hope’.
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