Meaning of DESPERATION
| Pronunciation: | | `despu'reyshun
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- [n] desperate recklessness; "it was a policy of desperation"
- [n] a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"
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| | Synonyms: | | despair |
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| | See Also: | | condition, foolhardiness, rashness, recklessness, status | |
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| | Definition: | | Desperation
Somewhere along Route 50 in the Nevada desert exists a dead-end town called Desperation. Those who cross the town line embark on a never-ending journey of desperation, lunacy, and terror, as they find true desperation in a town that no one leaves. The novel is a companion piece to The Regulators , which is written under the name Richard Bachman and which involves many of the same characters in the same sort of setting, but exhibits an entirely different flavor than Desperation . The books can be read separately, in either order, and each can stand on its own as a fully-realized work. But they are interdependent works of fiction as well. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Des`per*a"tion\, n. [L. desperatio: cf. OF.
desperation.]
1. The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up
of hope.
This desperation of success chills all our industry.
--Hammond.
2. A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of
hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
In the desperation of the moment, the officers even
tried to cut their way through with their swords.
--W. Irving.
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| | Related Terms: | | acedia, anguish, anxiety, anxiousness, apathy, cave of despair, cave of Trophonius, defeatism, dejection, depression, despair, desperateness, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, distress, foolhardiness, forlornness, gloom, heedlessness, hopelessness, impetuosity, imprudence, melancholy, misery, no exit, no way, no way out, pessimism, rashness, recklessness, sloth, sorrow, wretchedness |
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