desperate
ὅτι χρὴ τοῦ μέλιτος ἄκρῳ δακτύλῳ, ἀλλὰ μὴ κοίλῃ χειρὶ γεύεσθαι → that honey should be tasted with the fingertip and not by the handful
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adj.
Hopeless: P. ἀνέλπιστος.
Impossible to deal with: P. and V. ἄπορος, V. ἀμήχανος (rare P.).
Of persons: P. ἀπονενοημένος; see despairing.
Precarious: P. ἐπικίνδυνος, ἐπισφαλής.
Incurable: P. and V. ἀνήκεστος, V. δύσκηλος; see incurable.
Fierce, obstinale: P. ἰσχυρός.
Be in desperate straits, v.: P. ἀπόρως διακεῖσθαι.
Desperate straits, subs.: P. and V. ἄπορον, τό, or pl., V. ἀμήχανον, τό, or pl. (rare P.).
Desperate remedies: P. διακεκινδυνευμένα φάρμακα (Isoc.).
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
dēspērātē:
I adv., hopelessly, etc., v. despero, P. a., no. 2. fin.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
dēspērātē, c. desperanter : Aug. Ep. 56, 2 || desperatius Aug. Conf. 6, 15 ; Cassian. Coll. 4, 20.
Latin > German (Georges)
dēspērātē, Adv. m. Compar. (desperatus), hoffnungslos, vel securus vel certe non d. sollicitus, Augustin. epist. 56, 2: vulnus quasi frigidius, sed desperatius dolebat, Augustin. conf. 6, 15: desperatius aegrotare, Cassian. coll. 4, 20 extr.
Latin > English
desperate ADV :: desperately, hopelessly; tremendously, very
