desperately
adverb
des·per·ate·ly
ˈde-sp(ə-)rət-lē 
-spərt-
Synonyms
- achingly
- almighty
- archly
- awful
- awfully
- badly
- beastly
- blisteringly
- bone
- colossally
- corking
- cracking
- damn
- damned
- dang
- deadly
- eminently
- enormously
- especially
- ever
- exceedingly
- exceeding
- extra
- extremely
- fabulously
- fantastically
- far
- fiercely
- filthy
- frightfully
- full
- greatly
- heavily
- highly
- hugely
- immensely
- incredibly
- intensely
- jolly
- majorly
- mightily
- mighty
- monstrous [chiefly dialect]
- mortally
- most
- much
- particularly
- passing
- rattling
- real
- really
- right
- roaring
- roaringly
- seriously
- severely
- so
- sore
- sorely
- spanking
- specially
- stinking
- such
- super
- supremely
- surpassingly
- terribly
- that
- thumping
- too
- unco
- uncommonly
- vastly
- very
- vitally
- way
- whacking
- wicked
- wildly
Examples of desperately in a Sentence
all of a sudden everything went desperately wrong
Recent Examples on the Web
These two desperately need to work it out on the remix.
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 2 July 2024
The Bruins were desperately lagging again when Kelly departed, having only one commitment from the Class of 2025.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
Megan has the makings of what could be the seminal album that the rapper’s discography desperately needs, but is hindered by its length.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2024
Listen to this article The new algorithm was supposed to help distribute lungs more fairly to people who desperately needed life-saving transplants.
—Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2024
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 2 July 2024
The Bruins were desperately lagging again when Kelly departed, having only one commitment from the Class of 2025.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
Megan has the makings of what could be the seminal album that the rapper’s discography desperately needs, but is hindered by its length.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2024
Listen to this article The new algorithm was supposed to help distribute lungs more fairly to people who desperately needed life-saving transplants.
—Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2024
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“Desperately.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/desperately. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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