Meaning of DESPERATION
| Pronunciation: | | `despu'reyshun
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- [n] desperate recklessness; "it was a policy of desperation"
- [n] a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"
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| | Synonyms: | | despair |
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| | See Also: | | condition, foolhardiness, rashness, recklessness, status | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Des`per*a"tion\, n. [L. desperatio: cf. OF.
desperation.]
1. The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up
of hope.
This desperation of success chills all our industry.
--Hammond.
2. A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of
hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
In the desperation of the moment, the officers even
tried to cut their way through with their swords.
--W. Irving.
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| | Related Terms: | | acedia, anguish, anxiety, anxiousness, apathy, cave of despair, cave of Trophonius, defeatism, dejection, depression, despair, desperateness, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, distress, foolhardiness, forlornness, gloom, heedlessness, hopelessness, impetuosity, imprudence, melancholy, misery, no exit, no way, no way out, pessimism, rashness, recklessness, sloth, sorrow, wretchedness |
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