1 feeling or showing that you have little hope and are ready to do anything without worrying about danger to yourself or others:
The prisoners grew increasingly desperate. * Stores are getting desperate after two years of poor sales. * Somewhere out there was a desperate man, cold, hungry, hunted. * I heard sounds of a desperate struggle, just above my room.
2 [usuallybeforenoun] (of an action) giving little hope of success; tried when everything else has failed:
a desperate bid for freedom * She clung to the edge in a desperate attempt to save herself. * His increasing financial difficulties forced him to take desperate measures. * Doctors were fighting a desperate battle to save the little girl's life.
3 [notusuallybeforenoun] (for sth)
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