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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|};

    [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 "





     [ "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.  

     [ "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!" 

     [ "desperation" ]

    1: A convenient anagram of 'a rope ends it'.

      * e.g.,  ... No other cure for desperation. 

     [ "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. 

     [ "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." 

     [ "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. 

     [ "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. 

     [ "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.

     [ "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 

     [ "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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