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DESPERATE

9 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 18 pts

DESPERATE is a valid 9-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 18 in Super Big Boggle.

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adjective
  1. In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
    • I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperate for food.
    • desperate to eat; desperate for attention
  2. Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.
    • I was so desperate at one point, I even went to see a loan shark.
  3. Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.
    • a desperate disease; desperate fortune
  4. Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness.
    • He dove into the rushing waters in a desperate effort to save her life.
  5. Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.
  6. Intense; extremely intense.
adverb
  1. USdialectalDesperately.
noun
  1. A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc.