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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadNoah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Desperate
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(1):
(a.) Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.
(2):
(a.) Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
(3):
(a.) Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.
(4):
(a.) Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
(5):
(n.) One desperate or hopeless.