Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a desperate manner; recklessly; without fear or restraint.
- Excessively; violently; unrestrainedly.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in intense despair
- adv. with great urgency
Etymologies
- desperate + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But she clung to the title desperately when she knew that it would be taken from her.”
“These are the people that are finally driving gaming into the mainstream, by forcing it to be accessible again, even as the shrinking group of embattled nerds who would lay claim to the term desperately try to anchor it in the elitist ghetto.”
“They are motivated by the desire to see more and better jobs in desperately poor places, so they assume that their opponents are motivated by the desire to hoard those jobs here.”
“What we need desperately is routine and inexpensive access to LEO.”
“But in desperately failing schools, where most kids lack basic skills, the only way to bushwhack a path out of the darkness is with a good, solid measuring stick.”
“Meanwile, whilst Hain desperately struggles to defend his incompetence, Guido has more to reveal concerning Hain's activities:”
“Believe me, McCain desperately wants to run against Hillary Clinton.”
Sources: Clinton, Obama supporters discussing exit strategies
“Railway workers aboard the train desperately tried to douse the smoke, but their efforts failed, and the box caught fire.”
“One thing I need desperately is a new title … hopefully that will come to me during revisions.”
“And, unless you have taken in desperately sick street dogs and provided them a home, stay off my case.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘desperately’.
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The Over-Worked "Very"
Synonyms for the word "very"
absolutely, actually, acutely, amazingly, assuredly, astonishingly, certainly, decidedly, desperately, downright, emphatically, exceedingly and 43 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Cage
cage, depart, nothing, void, strain, unconscious, never, alone, floor, God, hell, winter and 219 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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2007bee-r02
2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee Round 2
query, tendency, danceable, parachute, malignant, brutal, humanely, lyrically, deductible, shindig, gravel, embroidered and 274 more...
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intriguedBayou's Words
azure, cadence, rapscalion, excelsior, onomatopoeia, pounce, trepidation, coloda, benign, malevolent, wisp, homage and 48 more...
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Chocolate Factory Chapters 1, 2, 3, & 4
Vocabulary for Chapter's 1,2,3, and 4 of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
draft, desperately, inventor, absurd, clever, furnace, nibble, colossal, nightcap, stammer, torture, marvelous and 2 more...
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trillie's Words
weirdo, lapdog, artichoke, kickstart, nerd, misguide, indifference, viva, myth, seeker, itch, flipside and 38 more...
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