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[Noun] | "des*per*a*tion" | \ ˌde-spə-ˈrā-shən \
1: loss of hope and surrender to despair
2: a state of hopelessness leading to rashness
Origin: 14th century ;
Middle English disperacioun, desperacioun, borrowed from Anglo-French desperaciun, borrowed from Latin dēspērātiōn-, dēspērātiō, from dēspērāre "to give up as hopeless, despair of" + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of verbal action {mat|despair:2|};
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[Noun] | "desperation"
1: utter loss of hope;
* e.g., " ... during the famine her desperation drove her to do things she wouldn't have normally considered "
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[ "desperation" ]
1: Wanting or needing something so badly that you will do anything, even if its immoral, illegal, degrading, self-humiliating, or in poor taste.
* e.g., ... The Yankees were so filled with desperation to win a game that A-Rod actually called out "mine" while running the bases, causing the third basemen of the Blue Jays to miss a 2-out pop fly.
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[ "desperation" ]
1: a desperate state of mind.
* e.g., ... "I can't put up with this much longer."
[ "desperation" ]
2: in dire staits.
* e.g., ... "I don't know how much longer I can hold out."
[ "desperation" ]
3: in need of a bathroom.
* e.g., ... "I really need to pee....NOW!"
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[ "desperation" ]
1: A convenient anagram of 'a rope ends it'.
* e.g., ... No other cure for desperation.
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[ "desperation" ]
1: adjective. used to describe something of lesser quality, but will fill the need in desperate times.
* e.g., ... desperation toilet paper can be made with coffee filters or grain bags.
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[ "desperation" ]
1: Being so hard-up to insult someone that you start going after their typos; or the same typo multiple times.
* e.g., ... "Making fun of Jonah Goldberg for spelling errors is a sure sign of desperation."
# 6 - { desperism:2605333 }
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[ "desperism" ]
1: "Desperism" : The action of publicly ruining your personal reputation through a desperate or humiliating act in order to preserve a flawed ideology, statement of innocence or ill reputed corporate mandate.
* e.g., ... Example #1: "The desperism is evident as John still insists that the world is flat even after seeing the photographs of earth from space.
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[ "Desperate" ]
1: feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with. A desperate person is a person that needs or wants something badly. someone who is to hopeless and just gives up. someone who is despairing, hopeless; anguished, distressed, wretched, desolate, forlorn, distraught, fraught; (of an act or attempt) tried in despair or when everything else has failed; having little hope of success. (of a situation) extremely bad, serious, or dangerous.
* e.g., ... Brock is so desperate he needs someone's phone badly to text his friend for help.
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[ "desperate" ]
1: feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with.
* e.g., ... Tom is such a desperate f***, literally trying to bang everything that moves.
[ "desperate" ]
2: 2 (of a person) having a great need or desire for something.
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[ "Desperate" ]
1: When you want a hoodie or cuddles, but you look like too much of a rat to even get a boyfriend.
* e.g., ... Shalissa: Omg I'm so desperate
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[ "desperate" ]
1: Someone who wants something so bad they will go to extreme lengths to get it.
* e.g., ... actually laughing at Jakcs pick up lines? that is so desperate.
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