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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   desperate

   • IPA[ˈdesp(ə)rət]

   美式

   • adj.
     feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with；(of an act or attempt) tried in despair or when everything else has failed; having little hope of success
2. • 釋義
   • 片語

   adj.

   形容詞

   • 1. feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with a desperate sadness enveloped Ruth 同義詞 despairing, hopeless, anguished, distressed, in despair, ... 更多suicidal, miserable, wretched, desolate, forlorn, disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, devastated, downcast, resigned, defeatist, pessimistic, distraught, fraught, overcome, out of one's mind, at one's wits' end, beside oneself, at the end of one's tether, literarydolorous反義詞 cheerful, composed
   • ▪ (of an act or attempt) tried in despair or when everything else has failed; having little hope of success drugs used in a desperate attempt to save his life 同義詞 last-ditch, last-chance, last-resort, last-minute, last-gasp, ... 更多eleventh-hour, all-out, do-or-die, final, frantic, frenzied, wild, straining, futile, hopeless, doomed, lost
   • ▪ (of a situation) extremely bad, serious, or dangerous there is a desperate shortage of teachers 同義詞 grave, serious, dangerous, risky, perilous, ... 更多hazardous, precarious, critical, acute, dire, very bad, calamitous, appalling, awful, terrible, frightful, dreadful, outrageous, intolerable, deplorable, lamentable, sorry, poor, hopeless, irretrievable, informallousy, chronic, archaic, humorousparlous, urgent, pressing, compelling, crying, acute, critical, crucial, vital, drastic, serious, grave, dire, extreme, great, formalexigent
   • ▪ (of a person) having a great need or desire for something I am desperate for a cigarette the government is desperate to clean up Rio's streets 同義詞 in great need of, urgently requiring, craving, in want of, lacking, ... 更多wanting, eager, aching, longing, yearning, hungry, thirsty, thirsting, itching, crying out, desirous, informaldying
   • ▪ (of a person or fight) violent or dangerous a desperate criminal a desperate struggle 同義詞 violent, dangerous, lawless, reckless, rash, ... 更多hasty, impetuous, foolhardy, incautious, death-or-glory, do-or-die, hazardous, risky

   片語

   • desperate diseases must have desperate remedies