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- a state of extreme distress (同)dire straits
- showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire; "felt a desperate urge to confess"; "a desperate need for recognition"
- a person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey on the hopes of the desperate"
- fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency" (同)dire
- desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict" (同)do-or-die
- showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort; "made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"; "the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war"- G.C.Marshall; "they took heroic measures to save his life" (同)heroic
- (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair; "a desperate criminal"; "taken hostage of desperate men"
- narrow; "strait is the gate"
- a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water (同)sound
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- 『自暴自棄の』,『やけくその』 / 《補語にのみ用いて》切望している / (回復・改善などの)見込みがない,ほとんど望みがない / がまんできない,耐えられない / 死にもの狂いの,一か八かの
- 《しばしば複数形で》《単数扱い》『海峡』 / 《しばしば複数形で》『難局』,窮境 / 狭い(narrow);厳しい
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- （行動など)自暴自棄の、すてばちの。命知らずの、死にものぐるいの、いちかばちかの、命がけの。欲しくてたまらない(for)
- (事態・病気が)絶望的な、(よくなる)見込みがない
- すさまじい、ひどい。