Desperately is valid Scrabble Word

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

11 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for DESPERATELY in dictionary:

VERB:

In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.

ADVERB:

DESPERATE, in a state of despair
used to emphasize the extreme degree of something
in a way that shows despair
with great urgency
in intense despair

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

in a desperate manner

Words related to DESPERATELY

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How to use DESPERATELY in a sentence

I resisted, not as before, but yet desperately, trying with better knowledge to keep down the growing passion.
Being desperately shy, he attended strictly to business, and never so much as glanced at the girls packed in behind him.
The next day they broke through the handful of troops who desperately held the bridge.
Her money went, but she continued to play desperately.
She spoke in the mechanical voice of one desperately intent upon holding the mind to some vital project.
Podington was desperately afraid of the water, and he was particularly afraid of any craft sailed by an amateur.
How desperately she wanted to know! Yet there was a strange pleasure in not knowing, such as she might never feel again, when she was sure.
It chanced that once he became desperately engaged at dice.
He strove desperately to regain his intellectual freedom, but he could not.
I lost step and could not pick it up again, yet, as in a nightmare, I struggled on desperately.

For a few moments he struggled desperately with the black, advancing tide.
She calls upon the spirit of Hate, but when he appears she rejects his aid, and still clings desperately to her fatal passion.
And, moreover, she was desperately unhappy, and rushed into anything to escape from herself.
Lying on the ground, they struck no less furiously and desperately.
The Cambridge men got the ball, kept it between their heels and tried, desperately to wheel with it and carry it along with them.
She was wisely a little mysterious about the acquaintance, and contrived to pique the interest of Miss Sutfield by vague and desperately involved allusions.
But what? The bravest caught in a net struggles the most desperately, and involves himself the most hopelessly.
From that circle there was no issue, and in it he desperately revolved.
With such thoughts I was desperately rambling within the fence.
The days were long, I grew desperately hungry between meals, and the novelty of leading that ox soon lost its romance.
The cat screamed, clawed the air desperately for a few seconds, and lay still.
By this time they were both warm enough, but desperately tired.
She sees us desperately fighting, and yet she can neither spring nor bite.
Smoke strove desperately to pass during the exchange of sleds.
I told him that I thought you had tried desperately hard to learn this material.

Similar words containing SPERATE without suffix ly and without prefix de

asperate10 asperated12 asperates11 desperate12 exasperate19 exasperated21 exasperater20 exasperates20 exasperaters21 desperateness16 exasperatedly26 desperatenesses18

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