• adj.
    ⦿(of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair
    lexical concept
  • a desperate criminal
  • taken hostage of desperate men

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:desperate
wn:interlingual indexili:i11299

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labeldesperate