different between ingratiatingly vs desperate
ingratiatingly
English
Etymology
ingratiating +? -ly
Adverb
ingratiatingly (comparative more ingratiatingly, superlative most ingratiatingly)
- In an ingratiating manner.
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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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