What does DESPERATELY mean?
Definitions for DESPERATELY
des·per·ate·ly
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word DESPERATELY.
Princeton's WordNet
urgently, desperatelyadverb
with great urgency
"health care reform is needed urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash"
desperatelyadverb
in intense despair
"the child clung desperately to her mother"
Wiktionary
desperatelyadverb
In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Desperatelyadverb
Etymology: from desperate.
Your eldest daughters have foredone themselves,
And desp’rately are dead. William Shakespeare, King Lear.There might be somewhat in it, that he would not have done, or desired undone, when he broke forth as desperately as before he had done uncivilly. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. i.
She fell desperately in love with him, and took a voyage into Sicily in pursuit of him, he having withdrawn thither on purpose to avoid her. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 223.
Wikipedia
Desperately
Desperately is a song written by Jamie O'Hara and Kevin Welch, and recorded by American country music artist Don Williams. It was released in August 1988 as the third single from the album Traces. The song reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
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desperately
Desperately is an adverb that describes the state of being driven by or involving a sense of urgency, despair, extreme need, or desire. It's usually used to express a lack of hope and the willingness to do anything to change one's current situation.
Webster Dictionary
Desperatelyadverb
in a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately
Wikidata
Desperately
Watch Out is the fifth album by the Spanish group Barrabás, released in 1975. The album was later re-released on CD in Spain as Desperately. American jazz musician Herbie Mann featured in the recording of the album, after his hit cover of Barrabás' song "Hi Jack", which was released earlier that year. Also appearing was American saxophonist Michael Brecker. The girl posing on the cover of the album is Ellen Michaels. "Desperately" / "Broadway Star" was released as a single, although "It" was the B-side in some countries. Barrabás' next album, Swinger, was re-released on CD under the title Watch-Out, but is unrelated to this album.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'DESPERATELY' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4580
Adverbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'DESPERATELY' in Adverbs Frequency: #296
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of DESPERATELY in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of DESPERATELY in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of DESPERATELY in a Sentence
Whenever I put my Superman costume on as a kid, I didn't have X-ray vision. I had desperately short sight and had to wear big. thick glasses to see, i couldn't leave (glasses) in the phone box like Clark Kent could. That short sight lead me to have a detached retina.
Attorney General Matt Whitaker:
I don't expect that there's a legal justification for Title 42. There's certainly a political justification, this administration desperately wants it to continue in place no matter what they might say in court filings, because it's really about the only tool that they can use.
This means detecting household leaks, fixing mains infrastructure leaks, more efficient water use domestically plus implementing sustainable drainage solutions as part of desperately needed green infrastructure.
It’s sick. It’s desperately sick, and, there’s all these people who are trying to say, ‘Oh, well, they deserve it.’ Nobody deserves to be treated like this.
You have to ratchet back the (forecast output) numbers, there are growers who won't be able to plant a crop, and those that do desperately need rain.
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