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desperado
English
Etymology
From Spanish desperado, past participle of desperar, archaic form of desesperar (“to despair”), from Latin disperare (“to despair, to lose hope”), from prefix dis- + sperare (“to hope”). Doublet of desperate.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?sp?????d??/
Noun
desperado (plural desperadoes or desperados)
- A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
- 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, The present time
- The kind of persons who excite or give signal to such revolutions — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.
- 1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 6
- Surely this was the face of a desperado.
- 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, The present time
- (colloquial) A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, an addict, etc.
- 1981, Sam Grafstein, Dice Doctor
- The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.
- 1981, Sam Grafstein, Dice Doctor
- (colloquial) A person who is desperately in love or is desperate for a romantic or sexual relationship.
- (chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.
Translations
Anagrams
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Cebuano
Etymology
Cebuanized form of English desperate, from Latin d?sp?r?tus, past participle of d?sp?r? (“to be without hope”). Spanish desperado is a false friend.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: des?pe?ra?do
Adjective
desperado (feminine desperada)
- in dire need of something
- being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless
- without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious
Verb
desperado (feminine desperada)
- to be in dire need of something
- to be reckless due to desperation
Noun
desperado (feminine desperada)
- a desperate male person
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:desperado.
Danish
Etymology
From Spanish desperado (“desperate person”), past participle of desperar, archaic form of desesperar (“to despair”)
Noun
desperado c (singular definite desperadoen, plural indefinite desperados or desperadoer)
- desperado (outlaw)
Declension
See also
- desperat
References
- “desperado” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?s.p?.?a.do/
Noun
desperado m (plural desperados)
- desperado
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /despe??ado/, [d?es.pe??a.ð?o]
Adjective
desperado (feminine desperada, masculine plural desperados, feminine plural desperadas)
- Obsolete form of desesperado.
Verb
desperado m (feminine singular desperada, masculine plural desperados, feminine plural desperadas)
- Masculine singular past participle of desperar.
Further reading
- “desperado” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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outcast
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?a?tk??st/ (noun, adjective); /a?t?k??st/ (verb)
- (General American) IPA(key): /?a?tkæst/ (noun, adjective); /a?t?kæst/ (verb)
- Homophone: outcaste
Etymology 1
From Middle English outcasten, equivalent to out- +? cast.
Verb
outcast (third-person singular simple present outcasts, present participle outcasting, simple past and past participle outcast)
- To cast out; to banish. [from 14th c.]
Adjective
outcast (comparative more outcast, superlative most outcast)
- That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. [from 14th c.]
Etymology 2
From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- +? cast.
Noun
outcast (plural outcasts)
- One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah. [from 14th c.]
- Synonyms: outsider, vagrant, exile, beggar
- (more generally) Someone who does not belong; a misfit.
- (Scotland) A quarrel.
- The amount of increase in bulk of grain in malting.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:outcast
Translations
Anagrams
- acts out, cast out, outacts
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