Associations to the word «Desperately»

Wiktionary

DESPERATELY, adverb. In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly.

Dictionary definition

DESPERATELY, adverb. With great urgency; "health care reform is needed urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash".
DESPERATELY, adverb. In intense despair; "the child clung desperately to her mother".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope