desperate

Χαίρειν ἐπ' αἰσχροῖς οὐδέποτε χρὴ πράγμασιν → Non decet in rebus esse laetum turpibus → In schlimmer Not ist Freude niemals angebracht

Menander, Monostichoi, 544

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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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.).

dēspērātē:
I adv., hopelessly, etc., v. despero, P. a., no. 2. fin.

dēspērātē, c. desperanter : Aug. Ep. 56, 2 || desperatius Aug. Conf. 6, 15 ; Cassian. Coll. 4, 20.

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.