• adj.
    ⦿showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort
    lexical concept
  • made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber
  • the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war
  • they took heroic measures to save his life

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:desperate
  2. enl:heroic
wn:interlingual indexili:i1476

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
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  • desperateheroic
  • desperate