How to pronounce“desperate”in English
from before I was even born, we could have been on a different path now that would have set us on something different, but once you don't solve problems and once people become more and more
desperate, that's when extremism arises, right? So if you solve the problem of what are people going to do for meaningful work, you know, in the parts of the country that are feeling, you know,
watching their towns disappear and their children leave, and if you don't solve that problem, it's going to find a way to make you feel its pain. We did a show once called "The Revenge of
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Definitions of “desperate”
In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
“I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperate for food.”
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.”
Desperately.
A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc.
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