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Desperately

Desperately Meaning & Definition
Desperately Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Desperately?

[adv] with great urgency; "health care reform is needed urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash"
[adv] in intense despair; "the child clung desperately to her mother"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Desperately: urgently

Related Terms | Find terms related to Desperately: a corps perdu | carelessly | demonically | fanatically | fiercely | forlornly | frantically | frenetically | furiously | happen what may | hastily | head over heels | headfirst | headforemost | headlong | heedlessly | heels over head | helter-skelter | holus-bolus | hopelessly | hotheadedly | hotly | hurriedly | hurry-scurry | impetuously | impossibly | like crazy | like mad | like one possessed | madly | overeagerly | overenthusiastically | overzealously | precipitantly | precipitately | precipitously | ramble-scramble | recklessly | severely | slam-bang | slap-bang | slapdash | uncontrollably | violently | wantonly | wildly

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Desperately In Webster's Dictionary

\Des"per*ate*ly\, adv. In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately. She fell desperately in love with him. --Addison.

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