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Wordnet 3.0

ADVERB (2)

1. with great urgency;
- Example: "health care reform is needed urgently"
- Example: "the soil desperately needed potash"
[syn: urgently, desperately]

2. in intense despair;
- Example: "the child clung desperately to her mother"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Desperately \Des"per*ate*ly\, adv.
   In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety;
   recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.
   [1913 Webster]

         She fell desperately in love with him.   --Addison.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

desperately
    adv 1: with great urgency; "health care reform is needed
           urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash" [syn:
           urgently, desperately]
    2: in intense despair; "the child clung desperately to her
       mother"