• adj.
    ⦿fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
    lexical concept
  • a desperate illness
  • a dire emergency
  • on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:desperate
  2. enl:dire
wn:interlingual indexili:i3617

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labeldesperatedire