desperate

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹɪt/    美 /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹɪt/|/ˈdes.p(ə.)ɹɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc.
形容词 adj.
  1. In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
    — I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperate for food.
  2. Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.
    — I was so desperate at one point, I even went to see a loan shark.
  3. Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.
    — a desperate disease; desperate fortune
  4. Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness.
    — In England his flute was not in request; there were no convents; and he was forced to have recourse to a series of desperate expedients.
  5. Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.
    — a desperate offendress against nature
  6. Intense; extremely intense.
    — She enraged some country ladies with three times her money, by a sort of desperate perfection which they found in her.
副词 adv.
  1. Desperately. US,dialectal

词形变化

more desperate comparative desperater comparative,proscribed,rare most desperate superlative desperatest proscribed,superlative more desperate comparative most desperate superlative desperates plural

词汇关系

衍生词
desperately desperateness desperate times call for desperate measures desperate times require desperate measures desperation nondesperate overdesperate undesperate
相关词
despair desperado

词源

词源 1
From Middle English desperat(e) (“desperate”), borrowed from Latin dēspērātus, perfect passive participle of dēspērō (“to be without hope”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun is derived from the adjective or from the Latin source through substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
词源 2
From Middle English desperat(e) (“desperate”), borrowed from Latin dēspērātus, perfect passive participle of dēspērō (“to be without hope”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun is derived from the adjective or from the Latin source through substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
词源 3
From Middle English desperat(e) (“desperate”), borrowed from Latin dēspērātus, perfect passive participle of dēspērō (“to be without hope”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun is derived from the adjective or from the Latin source through substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
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