Desperate
Bible Usage:
- desperate used twice.
- desperately used once.
- First Reference: Job 6:26
- Last Reference: Isaiah 17:11
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
DESPERATE, adjective [Latin To despair.]
1. Without hope.
I am desperate of obtaining her.
2. Without care of safety; rash; fearless of danger; as a desperate man. Hence,
3. Furious, as a man in despair.
4. Hopeless; despaired of; lost beyond hope of recovery; irretrievable; irrecoverable; forlorn. We speak of a desperate case of disease, desperate fortunes, a desperate situation or condition.
5. In a popular sense, great in the extreme; as a desperate sot or fool.
DESPERATELY, adverb
1. In a desperate manner; as in despair; hence, furiously; with rage; madly; without regard to danger or safety; as, the troops fought desperately
2. In a popular sense, greatly; extremely; violently.
She fell desperately in love with him.
DESPERATENESS, noun Madness; fury; rash precipitance.