'Desperately' definitions:
Definition of 'desperately'
(from WordNet)
adverb
With great urgency; "health care reform is needed urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash" [syn: urgently, desperately]
adverb
In intense despair; "the child clung desperately to her mother"
Definition of 'Desperately'
From: GCIDE
- Desperately \Des"per*ate*ly\, adv. In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately. [1913 Webster]
- She fell desperately in love with him. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'desperately'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a corps perdu,
- carelessly,
- demonically,
- fanatically,
- fiercely,
- forlornly,
- frantically,
- frenetically,
- furiously,
- happen what may,
- hastily,
- head over heels,
- headfirst,
- headforemost,
- headlong,
- heedlessly,
- heels over head,
- helter-skelter,
- holus-bolus,
- hopelessly,
- hotheadedly,
- hotly,
- hurriedly,
- hurry-scurry,
- impetuously,
- impossibly,
- like crazy,
- like mad,
- like one possessed,
- madly,
- overeagerly,
- overenthusiastically,
- overzealously,
- precipitantly,
- precipitately,
- precipitously,
- ramble-scramble,
- recklessly,
- severely,
- slam-bang,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- uncontrollably,
- violently,
- wantonly,
- wildly