Dictionary Entry
desperately
desperately is a 11-letter English word with 3 senses as adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 18 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1adverb
In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.
- 2adverb
with great urgency
"health care reform is needed urgently"
"the soil desperately needed potash"
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- 3adverb
in intense despair
"the child clung desperately to her mother"
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