Definition of Desperation

1. Noun. A state in which all hope is lost or absent. "Courage born of desperation"

Exact synonyms: Despair
Generic synonyms: Condition, Status
Derivative terms: Despair, Despair

2. Noun. Desperate recklessness. "It was a policy of desperation"
Generic synonyms: Foolhardiness, Rashness, Recklessness

Definition of Desperation

1. n. The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.

Definition of Desperation

1. Noun. The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope. ¹

2. Noun. A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Desperation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Desperation

despended
despending
despends
desperado
desperadoes
desperados
desperate
desperate criminal
desperate measure
desperate straits
desperate times call for desperate measures
desperate times require desperate measures
desperately
desperateness
desperatenesses
desperation (current term)
desperations
despicability
despicable
despicableness
despicably
despiciency
despight
despights
despinning
despiramine
despiritualize
despiritualized
despiritualizes
despisable

Literary usage of Desperation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Civil War in America by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1866)
"desperation- or тн> ... desperation, and did not willingly relinquish the victory, which they had supposed was so easily within their grasp. ..."

2. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"Then beware how you goad an insulted but magnanimous people to deeds of desperation ! The Rev. Robert N. Anderson, also a member of the Presbyterian Church, ..."

3. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"Exiled from land, they cast themselves in desperation on the sea. But no one can behold this ocean-city without perceiving that those exiles were rewarded ..."

4. Thirty Years of Labor. 1859-1889: In which the History of the Attempts to by Terence Vincent Powderly (1889)
"... and politician silent on the causes which drove men to t saloon and desperation in the Pennsylvania coal regions—Monopoly and liquor twin evils—Attempts ..."

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