Desperately - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈdespərətlɪ|  American pronunciation of the word desperately
Brit.  |ˈdesp(ə)rətlɪ|  British pronunciation of the word desperately

adverb

- with great urgency (syn: urgently)
the soil desperately needed potash
- in intense despair
the child clung desperately to her mother

Extra examples

...all of a sudden everything went desperately wrong...

...a novel about a woman who is desperately discontent with the stifling limitations of her small-town life...

...an emporium for home electronic equipment filled with stuff I didn't know I needed but now desperately want...

...I desperately want to join our regional theater's acting troupe and perhaps get a lead role....

...ugh, this oven desperately needs to be cleaned...

He desperately needed a job, so he interviewed everywhere.

The banks are now desperately scrabbling around to recover their cost.

I was desperately trying to think of somewhere to hide.

Joe resigned, which was a severe blow because we needed him desperately.

Passengers clung desperately onto the lifeboats.

She fought him desperately, kicking and biting.

I was at home when the desperately hoped-for call came through.

She was desperately trying to calm the inferno raging within her.

When I look back on those days I realize I was desperately unhappy.

I desperately tried to paddle for the shore.

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