English Dictionary

desperate

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdɛsp(ə)ɹət/

形容詞

In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire. / Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless. / Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.

日本語の意味

切迫した必要性がある、または切実な欲求を抱いている状態 / 絶望に満ちた、または絶望的な状態 / 希望がほとんどなく、絶望に陥りかねないほどの状態 / 非常に危険で、絶望を引き起こすほどの状況

The hikers were desperate for water after their map blew away and they became lost.

地図が飛ばされて道に迷った後、ハイカーたちは水を切望していた。

意味（1）

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

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

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

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

a desperate disease; desperate fortune

意味（4）

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.

意味（5）

Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.

a desperate offendress against nature

意味（6）

Intense; extremely intense.

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

more desperate （ comparative ）

most desperate （ superlative ）