Desperate
Desperate , adjective
[Latin desperatus, past participle of desperare. See Despair, and compare Desperado.]
1.
Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. [Obsolete]
I am desperate of obtaining her.
2.
Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
3.
Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.
Desperate expedients.
4.
Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
A desperate offendress against nature.
The most desperate of reprobates.
Desperate , noun
One desperate or hopeless. [Obsolete]