Desperate
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(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.
King James Dictionary [2]
Desperate, a. L. To despair.
1. Without hope.
I am desperate of obtaining her.
2. Without care of safety rash fearless of danger as a desperate man. Hence, 3. Furious, as a man in despair. 4. Hopeless despaired of lost beyond hope of recovery irretrievable irrecoverable forlorn. We speak of a desperate case of disease, desperate fortunes, a desperate situation or condition. 5. In a popular sense, great in the extreme as a desperate sot or fool.
