Usually means: In urgent need of help.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word desperate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. desperate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. desperate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. desperate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. desperate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. desperate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Desperate, desperate: Wordnik
  7. desperate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. desperate: Wiktionary
  9. desperate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. desperate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. desperate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Desperate, desperate: Dictionary.com
  13. desperate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Desperate (Divinyls album), Desperate (film), Desperate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Desperate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. desperate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. desperate: Rhymezone
  18. desperate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. desperate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. desperate: Free Dictionary
  21. desperate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. desperate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. desperate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. desperate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. desperate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desperate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. desperate: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. desperate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Desperate: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

(Note: See desperately as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
adjective:  Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.
adjective:  Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.
adjective:  Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness.
adjective:  Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.
adjective:  Intense; extremely intense.
noun:  A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc.

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