(a.) Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
(a.) Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.
(a.) Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
(n.) One desperate or hopeless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
(2) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(3) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(4) Many hope this week's photocalls with the two men will be a recruiting aid and provide a desperately needed bounce in the polls.
(5) Hamilton said it was uncanny to find themselves in another desperate emergency situation almost exactly one year on.
(6) There are numerous other male protagonists out there in desperate need of a sex change.
(7) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
(8) 9.23pm GMT Expect the reporters to get even more speculative and desperate from hereon in.
(9) He said: “Almost daily we hear from parents desperate to escape the single cramped room of a B&B or hostel that they find themselves struggling to raise their children in.
(10) The report's authors warns that to limit their spending councils will have "an incentive to discourage low-income families from living in the area" and that raises the possibility that councils will – like the ill-fated poll tax of the early 1990s – be left to chase desperately poor people through the courts for small amounts of unpaid tax.
(11) The local MP, Rory Stewart, a mover and shaker on the broadband project, told me that he was desperate to get telehealth into Cumbria, but regretfully felt that it was not immediately doable, because the local council and healthcare community did not yet have the necessary expertise.
(12) In desperation, I cancelled my contract with Sky and placed a new order with BT in February.
(13) When I heard it, I thought of Sherpa as a first name, like the Edmund in Edmund Hillary, rather than as a description, like the Desperate in Desperate Dan.
(14) Clark said he first met Brown in November 2004, just a few months before the general election when the party was in desperate need of funds.
(15) I tried desperately hard not to influence her, but I did steer her away from a baby that I've already bought her for her Christmas present.
(16) Patel once wrote: “At one end of this world, there is one woman who desperately needs a baby and cannot have her own child.
(17) Families like these are being abandoned to their fate and, as Steve Hynes of the Legal Action Group says: "These are often truly desperate people."
(18) Michael Holroyd, in his biography of George Bernard Shaw , gives an illuminating example of myopic hostility to Russia by the right even when we desperately needed allies.
(19) Police reinforcements are being sent to the embattled port of Calais in an attempt to prevent increasingly desperate attempts by migrants to gain access to the UK.
(20) "I desperately don't want this to suppress people's choice and freedom," says Stansfield.
Despondent
Definition:
(a.) Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner.
Example Sentences:
(1) After she hit the two-year mark, five-month mark, she’s been despondent.
(2) It was hard to reconcile Pistorius's despondent figure in black suit and tie and white shirt with the "blade runner" who thrilled stadiums around the world and became the first amputee to run in the Olympics .
(3) But actually what we felt as the days and weeks passed – me and Kelly and my father – was a sense of despondency, of being let down, of just sinking through the system.
(4) In 46%, the subject had expressed despondency over illness.
(5) There is a sense of despondency spreading in Pakistan.
(6) The value of Brazil's currency, the real, has ballooned since President Lula took power, leaving exporters despondent and leading Goldman Sachs to classify it as the most overvalued currency on earth.
(7) , became a battle manual for despondent Democrats after George W Bush’s second election victory.
(8) He told worshippers at Durham cathedral: "It is very easy to be despondent about the church.
(9) Pablo Simón, a political science professor at Madrid’s Carlos III University, argues that a fresh election and the attendant politicking could further alienate an already despondent electorate.
(10) In Spike Jonze 's Her, set in a near future LA, Phoenix is Theodore, a despondent, solitary writer whose life picks up when he falls in love with Samantha, a portable, artificially intelligent operating system who provides more than he could have hoped for.
(11) [It is] all the Ds: despair, depression, despondency.” “Chinese media are under a lot of pressure right now.
(12) Jose Mourinho: Rafa Benitez destroyed my work at Inter within six months Read more There wasn’t too much to get excited or despondent about in any of the displays in New York, Charlotte or here in Washington DC.
(13) Rob came very close to death many times, and I think part of James's despondency now comes from having saved Rob so many times, only to lose him in the end.
(14) They have been left despondent by Francis's occasional comments on the issue, in which he has generally defended the church while condemning the abuse.
(15) Despondent MPs tonight voiced fears that Britain may experience a milder version of the "clean hands" affair that brought down Italy's postwar political settlement in the 1990s.
(16) Strong was despondent over Bilibid but recovered and developed a noteworthy career in American tropical medicine.
(17) It has been demonstrated that a small proportion of women taking oral contraceptives develop a depressive syndrome characterized by despondency, tension, and changes in sex desire.
(18) A classic portrait of the grieving widower, his despondency did not surprise mental health professionals.
(19) For those who don't get the results they hoped for – and their chosen universities – the moments after the envelope are full of dread and despondency.
(20) It is easy to see why players bounce off Klopp and indeed it was tempting to wonder if Chelsea’s despondent players were casting the occasional envious glance at the German, whose energetic and engrossing touchline demeanour offered a welcome shade of light next to José Mourinho ’s dark scowl.