(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.
Hopeless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
(a.) Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause.
(a.) Unhoped for; despaired of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its experiments are so hopelessly flawed that the results are meaningless."
(2) They were preceded by the publication of The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965) and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969); in one, he made a hopeless mess of Picasso’s later career, though he was not alone in this; in the other, he elevated a brave dissident artist beyond his talents.
(3) Rather than ruthlessly efficient, I have found them sweet and a bit hopeless."
(4) Alcohol and drugs are influential in providing a feeling of hopelessness by their toxic effects, by disruption of interpersonal relationships and social supports, and, possibly, by manipulating neurotransmitters responsible for mood and judgment.
(5) The authors document the first 19 months of a service dedicated to the care of hopelessly ill patients in a teaching hospital.
(6) "); hopeless self-pity ("Nobody said anything to me about Billy ... all day long") and rage ("You want to put a bench in the park in Billy's name?
(7) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
(8) It’s all very well for Hopeless to make fun of me saying Brexit means Brexit,” said Hapless, haplessly.
(9) Meanwhile, the dance music that sells in any quantity is just hopeless.
(10) Both depression and hopelessness were sensitive to changes in suicide risk during the one-month follow-up.
(11) Many aspects of the theory's descriptive claims about depressive thinking have been substantiated empirically, including (a) increased negativity of cognitions about the self, (b) increased hopelessness, (c) specificity of themes of loss to depressive syndromes rather than psychopathology in general, and (d) mood-congruent recall.
(12) In addition, the paper presents the author's experience with human vitreous transplantation by the 'open sky' transcorneal technique for otherwise hopeless vitreous opacities.
(13) The relationship between depression and suicide disappears when hopelessness is taken into account.
(14) The performance of controls and DST escapers was related to depth of semantic processing, whereas performance of DST suppressors varied inversely with degree of felt hopelessness.
(15) The question of vulnerability to DSH is discussed as well as the possibility of using measures of hopelessness and intropunitive hostility to identify those at greater risk of repetition.
(16) But the Labour leader has only himself to blame because of his hopelessly woolly response to a question on this in his BBC interview on Monday.
(17) "It was a certain kind of titillation the shop offered," the critic Matthew Collings has written, "sexual but also hopeless, destructive, foolish, funny, sad."
(18) Shinji Kagawa could not make any real difference and Marouane Fellaini continues to look hopelessly out of his depth.
(19) Anhedonia, diurnal variation, hopelessness, psychomotor retardation, and delusions increased with age; depressed appearance, low self-esteem, and somatic complaints decreased with age.
(20) Four cases received no treatment but were recalled, and twelve perforations showed a size and location hopeless for repair; the teeth were therefore extracted.