• adj.
    ⦿arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
    lexical concept
  • a despairing view of the world situation
  • a desperate cry for help
  • helpless and desperate — as if at the end of his tether
  • her desperate screams
  • the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:despairing
  2. enl:desperate
wn:interlingual indexili:i6726

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • despairing
  • despairingdesperate