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desperate

B1 adj
gen /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət/

Các nghĩa

  1. rất cần, khao khát

    In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.

    I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperate for food.

  2. tuyệt vọng

    Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.

    I was so desperate at one point, I even went to see a loan shark.

  3. vô vọng, nguy kịch

    Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.

    a desperate disease; desperate fortune

  4. liều lĩnh

    Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness.

    In England his flute was not in request; there were no convents; and he was forced to have recourse to a series of desperate expedients.

  5. tồi tệ, không thể chịu nổi

    Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.

    a desperate offendress against nature

  6. dữ dội, mãnh liệt

    Intense; extremely intense.

    She enraged some country ladies with three times her money, by a sort of desperate perfection which they found in her.

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