Definition
desperate: in despair, hopeless, wild, frantic
desperately: frantically, wildly, urgently, gravely, badly, seriously
I'm desperately hoping that my husband doesn't find out that I had an affair.
- "Instead, it's a desperate one."
- "I'm getting quite desperate."
- "Desperately Kevin"
- "Firefighters are trying desperately to reach the scene of the accident."
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