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Definition: Desperate |
DesperateAdjective1. Arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope; "a despairing view of the world situation"; "the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal"; "a desperate cry for help"; "helpless and desperate--as if at the end of his tether"; "her desperate screams". 2. Desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict". 3. (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair; "a desperate criminal"; "taken hostage of desperate men". 4. Showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war"- G.C.Marshall; "they took heroic measures to save his life". 5. Showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire; "felt a desperate urge to confess"; "a desperate need for recognition". 6. Fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency". Noun1. A person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey on the hopes of the desperate". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "desperate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: DesperateSynonyms: despairing (adj), dire (adj), do-or-die(a) (adj), heroic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Difficulty | Awkward, unwieldy, unmanageable; intractable, stubborn; (obstinate); perverse, refractory, plaguy, trying, thorny, rugged; knotted, knotty; invious; pathless, trackless; labyrinthine; (convoluted); intricate, complicated; (tangled); impracticable; (impossible); not feasible; desperate; (hopeless). |
Greatness | Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute). |
Hopelessness | Adjective: hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir, forlorn, desolate; inconsolable; (dejected); broken hearted. |
Impossibility | Impracticable unachievable; unfeasible, infeasible; insuperable; unsurmountable, insurmountable; unattainable, unobtainable; out of reach, out of the question; not to be had, not to be thought of; beyond control; desperate; (hopeless); incompatible; inaccessible, uncomeatable, impassable, impervious, innavigable, inextricable; self-contradictory. |
Rashness | Verb: be rash; Adjective: stick at nothing, play a desperate game; run into danger; play with fire, play with edge tools. |
Adjective: rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident, temerarious; uncalculating; heedless; careless; (neglectful); without ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy; (inattentive); wanton, reckless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care. | |
Violence | Turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging; Verb: troublous, riotous; tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied; (insane). desperate; (rash); infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Desperate |
| English words defined with "desperate": A forlorn hope ♦ despairing, desperate measure, desperation, dire, Dunkerque, Dunkirk ♦ forlorn hope ♦ goner ♦ heroic, hopelessly ♦ madly, malady, menace ♦ Perdue. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "desperate": BADGERS, Baptism, Belly, Buccaneer' ♦ Coffin, Corpse ♦ Donkey, Drowning Men ♦ Flux ♦ Gallows ♦ HEAD ♦ -head ♦ Jailer ♦ Owl ♦ Patent Medicine, pron ♦ QUIXOTE ♦ Railing ♦ Schlemihl, Screech-owl, sophistry ♦ Tomb, Tunnel. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "desperate": Psychomachy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He's desperate. Jim, just wait till she leaves (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz) You were like some desperate, howling demon (The Addams Family; writing credit: Caroline Thompson) I've been desperate for a shag but watching him suffer was just too much fun (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) You've got to help me, I'm desperate! (A Bug's Life; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton) A mad man, your honor, a desperate fool at the end of his pitiful ropes (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur) | |
Lyrics | To the desperate hearts tonight (Amazing; performing artist: Aerosmith) Make a desperate move or else you'll win (Hook; performing artist: Blues Traveler) I was more than a desperate man. (What Kind of Man Would I be?; performing artist: Chicago) Left your desperate spell on me (I wanna love you forever; performing artist: Jessica Simpson) Desperate for changing (Hanging By A Moment; performing artist: Lifehouse) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Paul De Vree and His Desperate Killers (1973) 72 Desperate Rebels (1972) Desperate Characters (1971) Five Desperate Women (1971) The Desperate Mission (1969) | |
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 | State Quacks Or The Desperate Condition Of The Wither'd Sisters / W. Heath. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The desperate face of starvation. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by A.S. Kochar.. |
 | Sketch signed "W.T. Smith, Havana, March 1863", depicting Sonoma in Bermuda harbor during late 1862 or early 1863. The British sloop Desperate is in the left distance, and the British merchantman (possibly blockade runner?) Gladiator is in the left center. The original sketch was in colors. Credit: NAVY. |  | The pedlar and his pack or The desperate effort, an over balance. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Swerving beneath the great bulk the otter began a desperate fight for life. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | David's desperate attempt. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Christian Nevell Bovee | Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. |
Frank Sinatra | The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. |
John Donne | Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men. |
John Selden | Marriage is a desperate thing. |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. |
William Blake | All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. |
William Shakespeare | O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men! |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And to let us see, that even absolute power, where it is necessary, is not arbitrary by being absolute, but is still limited by that reason, and confined to those ends, which required it in some cases to be absolute, we need look no farther than the common practice of martial discipline: for the preservation of the army, and in it of the whole common-wealth, requires an absolute obedience to the command of every superior officer, and it is justly death to disobey or dispute the most dangerous or unreasonable of them; but yet we see, that neither the serjeant, that could command a soldier to march up to the mouth of a cannon, or stand in a breach, where he is almost sure to perish, can command that soldier to give him one penny of his money; nor the general, that can condemn him to death for deserting his post, or for not obeying the most desperate orders, can yet, with all his absolute power of life and death, dispose of one farthing of that soldier's estate, or seize one jot of his goods; whom yet he can command any thing, and hang for the least disobedience; because such a blind obedience is necessary to that end, for which the commander has his power, viz. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | All this was said in a tone of proud humility, a desperate and resolute tone, which gave an indescribably whimsical grandeur to this oddly honest man. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I said they were fellows of desperate fortunes, forced to fly from the places of their birth, on account of their poverty or their crimes |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Although BMT was once considered desperate and reserved for treatment of end-stage leukemia, it is now used routinely as an effective tool for treatment of several other cancers. (references) | |
Business | That the country was in desperate need of capital is a reason the government moved as swiftly as it did toward implementation. (references) | |
Korea also is in desperate need of cost-effective alternatives to using cover soil that, usually, are spread over landfills to mitigate odor problems. (references) | ||
Such negative images have been particularly re-enforced over the past two years in the country's desperate efforts to improve its liquidity to pay back foreign debts. (references) | ||
Children | India | Overcrowded and serving as "dumping grounds" for desperate relatives, some mental hospitals lack even basic amenities and have poor medical facilities. (references) |
Economic History | Vietnam | Most of these hospitals are publicly owned and in desperate need of modern equipment. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | Extremely serious health and sanitary conditions persist, and the educational system remains in desperate condition. (references) | |
Human Rights | Georgia | Prison facilities remain unsanitary, overcrowded, and understaffed, and are in desperate need of repair. (references) |
Minorities | Hungary | Once unemployment benefits are exhausted, and with social services stretched thin, the majority of Roma live in desperate poverty. (references) |
Worker Rights | Indonesia | According to one report, poor Sino-Indonesian parents from Sinkawang, West Kalimantan, who were desperate for money and believed that their daughters would have a better future, have sold thousands of their daughters into contract marriages to Taiwanese men. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEAD-:MONEY:, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray Their master to devise some way To swell the revenue. "So great," Said they, "are the demands of state A tithe of all that we collect Will scarcely meet them. Pray reflect: How, if one-tenth we must resign, Can we exist on t'other nine?" The monarch asked them in reply: "Has it occurred to you to try The advantage of economy?" "It has," the spokesman said: "we sold All of our gray garrotes of gold; With plated-ware we now compress The necks of those whom we assess. Plain iron forceps we employ To mitigate the miser's joy Who hoards, with greed that never tires, That which your Majesty requires." Deep lines of thought were seen to plow Their way across the royal brow. "Your state is desperate, no question; Pray favor me with a suggestion." "O King of Men," the spokesman said, "If you'll impose upon each head A tax, the augmented revenue We'll cheerfully divide with you." As flashes of the sun illume The parted storm-cloud's sullen gloom, The king smiled grimly. "I decree That it be so -- and, not to be In generosity outdone, Declare you, each and every one, Exempted from the operation Of this new law of capitation. But lest the people censure me Because they're bound and you are free, 'Twere well some clever scheme were laid By you this poll-tax to evade. I'll leave you now while you confer With my most trusted minister." The monarch from the throne-room walked And straightway in among them stalked A silent man, with brow concealed, Bare-armed -- his gleaming axe revealed! G.J. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | For wherever in the world a people knows desperate want, there must appear at least the spark of hope, the hope of progress--or there will surely rise at last the flames of conflict. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | In Haiti, the dictators are gone, democracy has a new day, and the flow of desperate refugees to our shores has subsided. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | An Iraqi regime faced with its own demise may attempt cruel and desperate measures. |
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| "Desperate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Desperate" is used about 2,605 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2,605 | 3,503 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "desperate": a desperate situation ♦ be at a desperate pass ♦ be desperate ♦ be desperate for ♦ be desperate for smth. ♦ be desperate to get ♦ desperate attempt ♦ desperate criminal ♦ desperate fool ♦ desperate measure ♦ desperate remedy ♦ desperate straits ♦ desperate to be liked ♦ do smth. desperate ♦ in deep desperate. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "desperate": desperate-for, desperate-seeming, desperate-to-sleep. | |
Ending with "desperate": ever-desperate, ever-so-desperate, oh-so-desperate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "desperate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i skajshëm (abysmal, dire, extreme, outside, uttermost), i pashpresë (disconsolate, frustrate, frustrated, goner, hopeless, unlikely), i paarsyeshëm (arbitrary, daft, devil may care, gratuitous, headstrong, irrational, preposterous, unconscionable, unreasonable, wanton), i krisur (balmy, bonkers, cracked, crackers, cuckoo, Daffy, dare devil, daring, devil may care, flaky, hard on, loon, loony, madcap, nut, nuts, pixilated, potty, screwball, wacky), i dëshpëruar (depressed, depressing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, downcast, forlorn, heavyhearted, hopeless, sad). (various references) | |
Arabic | يائس (despairing, hopeless, lost), فاقد للأمل, متهور (audacious, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, brash, careless, daredevil, daredevilry, devil may care, excessive, extravagant, foolhardy, harum scarum, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-headed, immaterial, impetuous, impish, imprudent, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, too hasty, unrestrained, unwary), متسم بالتهور, مستقتل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ужасен (aghast, appalling, awful, bloodcurdling, deadly, deuced, devastating, dire, direful, dreadful, eldritch, execrable, fearful, fearsome, frantic, frightful, furious, ghastly, great, grievous, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrid, horror-stricken, lurid, macabre, miserable, morbid, murderous, planet-stricken, planet-struck, precious, sad, septic, terrible, terrific, towering, tremendous, unholy, unmentionable, vicious, wretched), отявлен (arrant, downright, notorious, open, professed, rank, right-down, straight out, unmitigated), отчаян (agonized, despairing, distressed, downcast, down-hearted, exanimate, last ditch, lost, miserable), безразсъден (daredevil, devil may care, injudicious, irrational, rash, reasonless, reckless, temerarious, unreasonable, unreasoning), безнадежден (forlorn, hopeless, irredeemable, up the spout). (various references) | |
Chinese | 绝望 (Despair, hopeless, hopelessness), 危急 (critical). (various references) | |
Czech | zoufalý (agonized, despairing, forlorn, hopeless, sorry), bezvýchodný (intractable), beznadìjný (hopeless, lost, out of hope). (various references) | |
Danish | desperat. (various references) | |
Dutch | wanhopig (abysmal, despairingly), radeloos. (various references) | |
Esperanto | senespera (abysmal), malespera. (various references) | |
Farsi | ازجان گذشته (Desperado), بیچاره (Destitute, Incurable, Wretch, Wretched), بی امید, بسیارسخت (Crucial), بسیاربد (Detestable, Devilish, Terrible). (various references) | |
Finnish | toivoton (hopeless), toivoinen (despairing). (various references) | |
French | désespéré (despairing, despairs, desponded), prêt tout, capable de tout. (various references) | |
Frisian | wanhopich, hopeleas (abysmal). (various references) | |
German | verzweifelt (despairing, despairs, desperately, desponded, forlorn, frantic, frustrated, hopelessly), hoffnungslos (abysmal, forlorn, gloomily, hopeless, hopelessly, irredeemably, irremediably, unhopeful). (various references) | |
Greek | ικανόσ για όλα, επικίνδυνοσ (dangerous, hazardous, nasty, perilous, risky, unsafe, wild cat), αγωνιώδησ (agonizing), απεγνωσμένοσ, απεγνωσμένος, απενοημένοσ, απελπισμένοσ (abject, desolate, despairing, hopeless), απελπισμένος (baleful, hopeless), απελπιστικόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מיואש (hopeless), מר פש (acrimonious, embittered, malcontent), ועז (audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daredevil, daring, enterprising, fearless, forward, venturesome), ואש (forborn, hopeless). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kétségbeesett (despairing, forlorn, last ditch, last-ditch). (various references) | |
Icelandic | örvæntingarfullur. (various references) | |
Indonesian | putus asa (disconsolate, dispirited, hopeless). (various references) | |
Italian | disperato (despairing, despairs, desponded, hopeless). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 命懸け (life & death, risking one's life, risky). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぜつぼうてき (hopeless), デスペレート , しにものぐるい (frantic), いのちがけ (life and death, risking one's life, risky). (various references) | |
Korean | 망하" (Despaired). (various references) | |
Manx | debejagh (desperado). (various references) | |
Norwegian | desperat. (various references) | |
Papiamen | desesperá (despair). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | esperateday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desesperado (abysmal, despondent, gone, hopeless, in despair). (various references) | |
Romanian | deznãdãjduit (despairing, despairingly, despondent, forlorn, hopeless, irredeemable), desperat (abject, desperado, desperately, forlorn, gone, hopeless, madman, pathetic, pathetically, temerarious), descreierat (brainless, hare-brained, madcap, reckless), violent (acute, bad, boisterous, fiercely, furious, heady, heavy, high, high-spirited, impetuous, raging, rampageous, rampant, rankly, robust, rough, rowdy, rude, rugged, severe, sharp, splitting, strong, sudden, towering, truculent, ungovernable, vehement, violent, virulent, wanton), teribil de mare, nechibzuit (brainless, impolitic, incautious, inconsiderate, reckless, temerarious, thoughtless, unadvised, unreasonable, unthinking, unwise), nebunesc (crazy, foolish, insensate, lunatic, mad, madman's, nonsensical, reckless, wild), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), groaznic (appalling, awful, awfully, baleful, dire, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, groovy, gruesome, horrendous, horrent, horrible, horribly, horrid, howling, lousy, miserable, miserably, monstrous, sad, scary, shocking, terrible, terribly, vile), furios (enraged, fiery, frantic, furious, high, hot-headed, howling, in anger, irate, ireful, like fury, mad, passionate, raging, rampageous, robust, scowling, storming, wanton, wild, wrathful), fãrã nãdejde, care riscã orice, înverşunat (deadly, fierce, fiery, frenzied, furious, hot, rabid, sharp, stubborn), îngrozitor (abominable, appalling, awful, awfully, beastly, direful, dreadful, grisly, hideous, horrible, shocking, terrible, terribly, terrific, tremendous). (various references) | |
Russian | ужасный (appalling, atrocious, awful, blood-curding, chilling, chronic, damnable, damned, dire, direful, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruelling, gruesome, hair raising, hair-raising, hairy, heinous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, macabre, perishing, spooky, terrible, tragic, unearthy), отъявленный (arrant, dyed in the wool, egregious, out and out, right-down, thoroughpaced), отчаянный (foolhardy, last-ditch, reckless, temerarious), отчаянно отчаянный, безрассудный (blind, daft, dare devil, foolhardy, foolish, harebrained, hellbent, rash, reckless, swashbuckling, temerarious, unreasonable), безысходный (abysmal, endless), безвыходный (abysmal, dead end), безнадёжный (abysmal), безнадё, безнадежный (disperate, hopeless, irredeemable, too far gone). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | desparatan, očajan (agonized), beznadežan (hopeless). (various references) | |
Spanish | desesperado (despairs, desperado, desponded, hopeless, in despair, last ditch, unattended, unpromising, unpromisingly). (various references) | |
Swedish | hopplös (abysmal, beyond hope, forlorn, hopeless, no-win, redemption), förtvivlad (agonized, despondent, forlorn, miserable, piteous), desperat (desperately, forlorn). (various references) | |
Turkish | vahim (desperately, fatal, forbidding, sore), umutsuz (bereft of hope, bleak, dead end, despairing, despondent, futureless, heavy-hearted, hopeless, past hope, remediless), korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, dire, direful, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grim, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, scary, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying), herşeyi göze almış, gözükara (foolhardy, overbold, unflinching), azgın (excessive, fierce, furious, goatish, mad, rampageous, rampant, Randy, skittish, wild), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), çaresiz (beyond retrieve, despairing, helpless, incurable, inevitable, irredeemable, irremediable, irreparable, past cure, past retrieve, remediless, shiftless, without means). (various references) | |
Turkmen | зykgynsyz (continual, hopeless). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | зневірений (forlorn, hopeless), жахливий (abominable, abysmal, almighty, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, blinking, blood-curdling, blue, chronic, damnable, damned, deadly, deuced, devilish, dire, direful, dreadful, eerie, eery, eldritch, enormous, fearful, fearsome, ferocious, flagrant, frightening, frightful, grievous, gruesome, horrible, horrific, iniquitous, macabre, monstrous, plaguy, scarey, scary, towering, tragic, tremendous, ungodly, wretched), безросудний, безнадійний (all up, hopeless, incorrigible, irredeemable), доведений до розпачу. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tuyệt vọng dữ dội, liều mạng (dare-devil, devil-may-care, wild), liều lĩnh không còn hy vọng, kinh khủng (direful, formidable, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, tremendous), ghê gớm (burning, fearful, formidable, gruesome, mortally, obscene, plaguy, precious, preciously, terrible, thundering, tremendous, woefully). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | audace, audaces, audaci, audacia, audacius, audax, desperata, desperatus. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 6, Verse 26 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oude o elegcoV umwn rhmasin me pausei oude gar umwn fqegma rhmatoV anexomai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ad increpandum tantum eloquia concinnatis et in ventum verba profertis |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind. |
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| Language | Job Chapter 6, Verse 26 |
| Albanian | Mos keni ndërmend vallë të qortoni ashpër fjalët e mia dhe fjalimet e një të dëshpëruari, që janë si era? |
| Cebuano | Naghunahuna ba kamo sa pagbadlong sa mga pulong, Kay nakita ang mga pakigpulong sa usa nawad-an sa paglaum sama sa hangin? |
| Croatian | Mislite li možda prekoriti rijeèi? T"a u vjetar ide govor oèajnikov! |
| Danish | Er det jer Hensigt at revse Ord? Den fortvivledes Ord er dog Mundsvejr! |
| Dutch | Zult gij, om te bestraffen, woorden bedenken, en zullen de redenen des mismoedigen voor wind zijn? |
| Finnish | Aiotteko nuhdella sanoja? Tuultahan ovat epätoivoisen sanat. |
| French | Voulez-vous donc blâmer ce que j`ai dit, Et ne voir que du vent dans les discours d`un désespéré? |
| German | Gedenket ihr, Worte zu strafen? Aber eines Verzweifelten Rede ist für den Wind. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Segala perkataanku kamu anggap angin saja; percuma kamu jawab aku yang sudah putus asa. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maukah kamu membelah rambut? adakah perkataan orang yang putus harap itu bagimu akan angin? |
| Italian | Forse voi pensate a confutare parole, e come sparsi al vento stimate i detti di un disperato! |
| Korean | 너 희 가 말 을 책 망 하 느 냐 ? 소 망 이 끊 어 진 자 의 말 은 " 람 같 으 니 라 |
| Maori | E mea ana ranei koutou kia riria nga kupu? he hau kau nei hoki nga korero a te tangata kua pau ona whakaaro. |
| Norwegian | Tenker I på å refse ord? Ord av en fortvilet mann hører jo vinden til. |
| Portuguese | Acaso pretendeis reprovar palavras, embora sejam as razões do desesperado como vento? |
| Rumanian | Vreyi sq mq mustrayi pentru tot ce am zis, wi sq nu vedeyi deckt vknt kn cuvintele unui desnqdqjduit? |
| Russian | чЩ ТЙ"ХНЩЧБЕФЕ ТЕЮЙ "МС П'МЙЮЕОЙС? оБ ЧЕФЕТ ХУЛБЕФЕ УМПЧБ ЧБЫЙ. |
| Spanish | ¿Pensáis reprender las palabras y los dichos de un desesperado, como si fueran viento? |
| Swedish | Haven I då i sinnet att hålla räfst med ord, och skall den förtvivlade få tala för vinden? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "desperate": desperately, desperateness, desperatenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Desperate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deparate, Depeyrot, deserate, desparate, despartie, desperated, despirate, despotate, desprate, desp'rate, desprite, disperate, dispirate, disporate, espereme, kesparates, respirate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "desperate" (pronounced de"sprut or de"sperut) |
| 4 | -p r u t | culprit, interpret, noncorporate, reinterpret, temperate. |
| 3 | -r u t | beret, carat, carrot, curate, demerit, elaborate, ferret, garret, inherit, invertebrate, karat, merit, parrot, pirate, portrait, secret, spirit, supersecret. |
| 5 | -s p er u t | disparate. |
| 4 | -p er u t | corporate, intemperate. |
| 3 | -er u t | accurate, barbiturate, commensurate, confederate, conglomerate, considerate, illiterate, inaccurate, degenerate, deliberate, directorate, doctorate, electorate, emirate, favorite, inspectorate, inveterate, literate, moderate, protectorate, triumvirate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: departees. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: departee, pederast, pestered, predates, rapeseed, repasted, repeated, reseated, trapesed. | |
-2 letters: adepter, dearest, deepest, departs, derates, petards, petered, predate, redates, reested, repeats, respade, retaped, retapes, sedater, speared, speeder, speered, steeped, steeper, steered, tapered. | |
-3 letters: adepts, aretes, daters, deeper, depart, derate, derats, desert, deters, drapes, easter, eaters, erased, etapes, padres, pardee, parsed, parted, pasted, paster. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: deprecates, depredates. | |
+2 letters: bespattered, carpetweeds, depreciates, desperately, exasperated, pederasties, prediabetes, replastered, spreadsheet, superheated. | |
+3 letters: decrepitates, depravements, deuteranopes, distemperate, perseverated, predesignate, predestinate, premeditates, spreadsheets, tradespeople. | |
+4 letters: desperateness, exasperatedly, interpleaders, parenthesized, peradventures, preadolescent, predepartures, predesignated, predesignates, predestinated, predestinates, preponderates, stereographed, superelevated. | |
+5 letters: daguerreotypes, disrespectable, distemperature, overspeculated, preadolescents, preestablished. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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