desperately

[Des·per*ate*ly]

When you do something desperately you do it with extreme urgency. If faced with a life and death situation, you might fight desperately, using any means possible to overcome the obstacles and survive.

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In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.

Adverb
with great urgency; "health care reform is needed urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash"

Adverb
in intense despair; "the child clung desperately to her mother"


adv.
In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.


Desperately

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

In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.

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Usage Examples

For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30.

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.

I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.

My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

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Other Usage Examples

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.

I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting.

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

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