Word Meanings - DESPERATELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately. She fell desperately in love with him. Addison.

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• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• SAFETY BICYCLE
  A bicycle with equal or nearly equal wheels, usually 28 inches diameter, driven by pedals connected to the rear wheel by a multiplying gear.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• FOUGHTEN
  p. p. of Fight.
• SAFETY CHAIN
  A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body in sluing. An auxiliary watch chain, secured to the clothes, usually out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch. A chain of sheet metal links
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• DANGERLESS
  Free from danger.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• REGARDLESS
  1. Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton. 2. Not regarded; slighted. Spectator. Syn. -- Heedless; negligent; careless; indifferent; unconcerned;
• REGARD
  1. To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon. Your niece regards me with an eye of favor. Shak. 2. Hence, to look or front toward; to face. It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland. Sandys. That exceedingly beatiful seat,
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• FOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Fight.
• REGARDING
  Concerning; respecting.
• ADDISON'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not
• DANGER
  difficulty, fr. OF. dagier, dongier , F. danger danger, fr. an assumed LL. dominiarium power, authority, from L. 1. Authority; jurisdiction; control. In dangerhad he . . . the young girls. Chaucer. 2. Power to harm; subjection or liability to
• DANGEROUS
  1. Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe. Our troops set forth to-morrow; stay with us; The ways are dangerous. Shak. It is dangerous to assert a negative. Macaulay. 2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• WITHOUT
  1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
• REGARDFUL
  Heedful; attentive; observant. -- Re*gard"ful*ly, adv. Let a man be very tender and regardful of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God to his heart. South. Syn. -- Mindful; heedful; attentive; observant.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• DISREGARD
  Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the admonitions of conscience. Studious of good, man disregarded fame. Blackmore.
• HARD-FOUGHT
  contested; as, a hard-fought battle.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ENDANGERMENT
  Hazard; peril. Milton.
• INSAFETY
  Insecurity; danger.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.