Desperate /(?)/

Des·per·ate

Desperate

a.
  1. Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. [Obs.]
    I am desperate of obtaining her.
  2. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
  3. Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.
  4. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
    A desperate offendress against nature.
    The most desperate of reprobates.

Desperate

n.
  1. One desperate or hopeless. [Obs.]