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desperate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin d?sp?r?tus, past participle of d?sp?r? (“to be without hope”)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?sp(?)??t/
Adjective
desperate (comparative more desperate, superlative most desperate)
- In dire need of something.
- I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperate for food.
- Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.
- Without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious.
- Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable.
- Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous.
- Extremely intense.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Noun
desperate (plural desperates)
- A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc.
Derived terms
- desperation
Related terms
- despair
- desperado
Translations
Anagrams
- departees
Danish
Adjective
desperate
- plural and definite singular attributive of desperat
Latin
Verb
d?sp?r?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of d?sp?r?
References
- desperate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- desperate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
desperate
- definite singular of desperat
- plural of desperat
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
desperate
- definite singular of desperat
- plural of desperat
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crucial
English
Etymology
1706, from French crucial, a medical term for ligaments of the knee (which cross each other), from Latin crux, crucis (“cross”) (English crux), from the Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”).
The meaning “decisive, critical” is extended from a logical term, Instantias Crucis, adopted by Francis Bacon in his influential Novum Organum (1620); the notion is of cross fingerboard signposts at forking roads, thus a requirement to choose.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?u?.??l/
- Rhymes: -u???l
Adjective
crucial (comparative more crucial, superlative most crucial)
- Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:important
- (archaic) Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
- (slang, especially Jamaican, Bermuda) Very good; excellent; particularly applied to reggae music.
Derived terms
- crucial experiment
Related terms
- cross
- crux
Translations
References
French
Etymology
From a root of Latin crux (“cross”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?y.sjal/
Adjective
crucial (feminine singular cruciale, masculine plural cruciaux, feminine plural cruciales)
- cruciform
- crucial, critical, vital
Further reading
- “crucial” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: cru?ci?al
Adjective
crucial m or f (plural cruciais, comparable)
- crucial
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:crucial.
Romanian
Etymology
From French crucial
Adjective
crucial m or n (feminine singular crucial?, masculine plural cruciali, feminine and neuter plural cruciale)
- pivotal
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From English crucial.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /k?u??jal/, [k?u??jal]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /k?u?sjal/, [k?u?sjal]
Adjective
crucial (plural cruciales)
- crucial
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