Desperately

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  desperately
       adv 1: with great urgency; "health care reform is needed urgently";
              "the soil desperately needed potash" [syn: {urgently}]
       2: in intense despair; "the child clung desperately to her
          mother"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "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