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desparate

desparate is the misspelling of desperate.

desparate is the misspelling of disparate.

Meaning of desperate

Adjective

desperate (comparative more desperate or (rare, proscribed) desperater, superlative most desperate or (proscribed) desperatest)

  1. In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
    • I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperate for food.
  2. Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.
    • I was so desperate at one point, I even went to see a loan shark.
  3. Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.
    • a desperate disease; desperate fortune
  4. Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness.
    • In England his flute was not in request; there were no convents; and he was forced to have recourse to a series of desperate expedients.1879, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “GOLDSMITH, Oliver”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica […] , Ninth edition, Volume X, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, page 761, column 2
  5. Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.
    • a desperate offendress against naturec. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  6. Intense; extremely intense.
    • She enraged some country ladies with three times her money, by a sort of desperate perfection which they found in her.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC

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Meaning of disparate

Adjective

disparate (comparative more disparate, superlative most disparate)

  1. Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
    • The board of the company was decidedly disparate, with no two members from the same social or economic background.
  2. Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs.
  3. Utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common ground.
    • Then disparate sense impressions come to disparate organs, as light to the eye, taste to the mouth, etc.1898, John Wesley Powell, Truth and Error
    Synonyms:
    incommensurable

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Questions about desparate

What is desparate the misspelling of?
Desparate is the misspelling of desperate.

Words near desparate in the dictionary

  1. despammed
  2. despammer
  3. despammers
  4. despamming
  5. despams
  6. desparate
  7. Despard
  8. desparple
  9. desparpled
  10. desparples
  11. desparpling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: desparate (page history and authors); desperate (page history and authors); disparate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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