Desperate is valid Scrabble Word

Is desperate a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for DESPERATE in dictionary:

NOUN:

One desperate or hopeless.
a person who is frightened and in need of help

ADJECTIVE:

in a state of despair
feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with
(of an act) tried in despair or when everything else has failed
(of a situation) extremely serious or dangerous
(of a person) violent or dangerous
very bad
(of a person) having a great need or desire for something
in despair and reckless

Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.
Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.
Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
desperately determined
(of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair
showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort
showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire
fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

having lost hope; giving no ground for hope

Words related to DESPERATE

desperately17 desperateness16

Words that contain DESPERATE

desperately17 desperateness16 desperatenesses18

How to use DESPERATE in a sentence

My one complaint was that the land was desperate flat to a hill-bred soul like mine.
The brave and desperate resistance of the Russians on both sides of the road between Ostrov and Rozan was without success.
He assured me once more that he did not wish to precipitate a conflict, but that unless Germany could restrain Austria I could regard the situation as desperate.
He was looking frightfully ill, and like a desperate man.
Sheila prayed to them a desperate prayer of human helplessness.
It was gathered in easily, but the man on third held the bag till the fly was caught and made a desperate dash for home.
Still, it is hardly fair to judge them by this comparison, for the Civil War saw the most bloody and desperate fighting that has occurred of late years.
He knew that his prey was desperate with hunger, that she had many old debts to pay, and that she would charge on sight.
Ken made a last desperate effort, and managed to force it open.
She waited with a sort of desperate courage for word from Harrison Miller.

On other occasions his thoughts wandered away to my desperate project of proving him to be an innocent man.
He saw the men surge forward, and he made a desperate effort to get to his feet.
But nevertheless the undertaking would, at that time, have been a most desperate one, and only to be justified by the critical position in which we were placed.
Putting forth my strength I strove to force his hand so that with his own blade he might kill or wound himself, but after a desperate struggle he broke away.
Holland is so immovable in her system of colony administration, that, as propositions to her, on that subject, would be desperate, they had better not be made.
As the mists lifted, they looked with grim foreboding but still desperate courage to the heights.
The doctors, alas, give a bad, if not desperate, account of him.
Along the whole length of the causeway a desperate fight was raging.
He turned, and with a desperate effort tried to throw himself backward whence he had come.
In desperate haste they descended lowering Walter Hine from man to man, they crawled down the slabs, dropped from shelf to shelf, wound themselves down the gullies of ice.
In one last desperate attempt to break through, Hal and the driver of the other car dashed into them.
The pull of imaginative desire, not the push of desperate effort, serves us best.
Beauclerk had given me an account, where the members played to a desperate extent.
Then there was a stir among the men, and all sorts of preparation for a desperate battle.

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