desperate
What is the Definition of desperate?
Noun:
- a person who is frightened and in need of help
Adjective:
- arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
- desperately determined
- (of persons)
- showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort
- showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
How can I use desperate in a sentence?
Neville was hanging on to her every word, desperate for anything that might help him hang on to his broomstick later, but everybody else was very pleased when Hermione's lecture was interrupted by the arrival of the mail.
With one last desperate look back at Ron, Harry and Hermione charged through the door and up the next passageway.
Hermione Granger was on the edge of her seat and looked desperate to start proving that she was not a dunderhead.
Getting desperate, Harry asked for the train that left at eleven o'clock, but the guard said there was not one.
Harry must have walked straight past him, so desperate to get to the mirror he had not noticed him.
Other meanings of desperate (synonyms, cognates).
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