English words starting with despe

Meanings of Desperado:

noun

A desperate or reckless person, especially a criminal.

Usage examples:

At the same time, he couldn't abide facile equations between criminal desperadoes and the legalized…

Meanings of Desperadoes:

noun

A desperate or reckless person, especially a criminal.

Usage examples:

At the same time, he couldn't abide facile equations between criminal desperadoes and the legalized…

Plural of desperado

Meanings of Desperados:

noun

A desperate or reckless person, especially a criminal.

Usage examples:

At the same time, he couldn't abide facile equations between criminal desperadoes and the legalized…

Meanings of Desperate:

adjective

Feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with.

Usage examples:

A desperate sadness enveloped ruth

Meanings of Desperate measure:

idiom

Desperate actions taken as a means to an end

Meanings of Desperate-straits:

idiom

A state of extreme distress

Meanings of Desperately:

adverb

In a way that shows despair.

Usage examples:

He looked around desperately

Meanings of Desperation:

noun

A state of despair, typically one which results in rash or extreme behaviour.

Usage examples:

She wrote to him in desperation