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We found 36 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word desperate: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "desperate" is defined. General (29 matching dictionaries) desperate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] desperate: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] desperate: Vocabulary.com [home, info] desperate: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] desperate: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Desperate, desperate: Wordnik [home, info] desperate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] Desperate: Wiktionary [home, info] desperate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] desperate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] desperate: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] Desperate, desperate: Dictionary.com [home, info] desperate: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] desperate: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] Desperate (Daphne Khoo Album), Desperate (Daphne Khoo song), Desperate (Divinyls album), Desperate (album), Desperate (film), Desperate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Desperate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] desperate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] desperate: Rhymezone [home, info] desperate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] desperate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] desperate: Free Dictionary [home, info] desperate: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info] desperate: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] desperate: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] desperate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] desperate: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] desperate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info] Art (1 matching dictionary) DESPERATE: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info] Business (2 matching dictionaries) DESPERATE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info] desperate: Legal dictionary [home, info] Computing (1 matching dictionary) desperate: Encyclopedia [home, info] Medicine (1 matching dictionary) desperate: online medical dictionary [home, info] Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary) desperate: Idioms [home, info] Slang (1 matching dictionary) Desperate: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook [home, info]

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (desperate) ▸ noun:  a person who is frightened and in need of help ("They prey on the hopes of the desperate") ▸ adjective:  desperately determined ▸ adjective:  (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair ("A desperate criminal") ▸ adjective:  showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort ("Made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber") ▸ adjective:  fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless ("A desperate illness") ▸ adjective:  showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire ("Felt a desperate urge to confess") ▸ adjective:  arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope ("A desperate cry for help")