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General (30 matching dictionaries)

1. desperate: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. desperate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. desperate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. desperate: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. desperate: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. desperate: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Desperate, desperate: Wordnik [home, info]
8. desperate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. desperate: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. desperate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. desperate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. desperate: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. Desperate, desperate: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. desperate: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
15. desperate: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
16. Desperate (Divinyls album), Desperate (film), Desperate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
17. Desperate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
18. desperate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
19. desperate: Rhymezone [home, info]
20. desperate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
21. desperate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
22. desperate: Free Dictionary [home, info]
23. desperate: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
24. desperate: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
25. desperate: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
26. desperate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
27. desperate: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
28. desperate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art (1 matching dictionary)

29. DESPERATE: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

30. DESPERATE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
31. desperate: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

32. desperate: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

33. desperate: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

34. desperate: Idioms [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

35. Desperate: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook [home, info]

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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") ▸ Also see desperates ▸ Words similar to desperate ▸ Usage examples for desperate ▸ Idioms related to desperate (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing desperate ▸ Popular nouns described by desperate ▸ Words that often appear near desperate ▸ Rhymes of desperate ▸ Invented words related to desperate