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1. Oxford Dictionary

   desperate

   • IPA[ˈdɛsp(ə)rət]

   英式

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

   adj.

   形容詞

   • 1. feeling or showing 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) tried in despair or when everything else has failed 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 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) violent or dangerous a desperate criminal 同義詞 violent, dangerous, lawless, reckless, rash, ... 更多hasty, impetuous, foolhardy, incautious, death-or-glory, do-or-die, hazardous, risky
   • ▪ Irish informal very bad that beer's desperate—it's a wonder you've the nerve to offer it for sale
   • 2. (of a person) having a great need or desire for something I am desperate for a cigarette other women are desperate to get back to work 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

   desperate diseases must have desperate remedies

   • ph.
     extreme measures are justified as a response to a difficult or dangerous situation

   Oxford American Dictionary

   desperate diseases must have desperate remedies

   • ph.
     extreme measures are justified as a response to a difficult or dangerous situation

   Oxford Dictionary

   片語

   • desperate diseases must have desperate remedies
3. • 更多解釋

   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 ... a desperate sadness enveloped Ruth

   Oxford American Dictionary