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Answer: dire


Clue Length Answer
Desperate3 lettersmad
  1. Definition: 1. roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"

Desperate4 letterswild
  1. Definition: 1. deviating widely from an intended course; "a wild bullet"; "he threw a wild pitch"

Desperate4 letterssore
  1. Definition: 1. roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"

Desperate4 lettersrash
  1. Definition: 1. marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest"

Desperate4 lettersdire
  1. Definition: 1. causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"

Desperate5 lettersrabid
  1. Definition: 1. of or infected by rabies

Desperate6 lettersdaring
  1. Definition: 1. disposed to venture or take risks;

Desperate6 lettershardup

    Desperate6 lettersraging
    1. Definition: 1. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea"

    Desperate6 lettersraving
    1. Definition: 1. praise enthusiastically; "She raved about that new restaurant"

    Desperate6 letterswanton
    1. Definition: 1. behave extremely cruelly and brutally

    Desperate7 lettersvicious
    1. Definition: 1. marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip"

    Desperate7 lettersranting
    1. Definition: 1. a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion

    Desperate7 lettersfurious
    1. Definition: 1. marked by extreme anger; "the enraged bull attached"; "furious about the accident"; "a furious scowl"; "infuriated onlookers charged the police who were beating the boy"; "could not control the maddened crowd"

    Desperate7 lettersviolent
    1. Definition: 1. marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions"

    Desperate7 lettershapless
    1. Definition: 1. deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

    Desperate7 lettersdrastic
    1. Definition: 1. forceful and extreme and rigorous; "drastic measures"

    Desperate7 lettersforlorn
    1. Definition: 1. marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"

    Desperate7 lettersfrantic
    1. Definition: 1. excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration"; "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied look in his eye"

    Desperate7 lettersdoordie

      Desperate8 lettersvehement
      1. Definition: 1. marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions"

      Desperate8 lettersslapdash
      1. Definition: 1. marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"

      Desperate8 lettersshocking
      1. Definition: 1. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident"

      Desperate8 lettershopeless
      1. Definition: 1. (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"

      Desperate8 lettersterrible
      1. Definition: 1. causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"

      Desperate8 lettersreckless
      1. Definition: 1. marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest"

      Desperate9 letterslastditch

        Desperate9 lettersabandoned
        1. Definition: 1. stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims; "He abandoned the thought of asking for her hand in marriage"; "Both sides have to give up some claims in these negotiations"

        Desperate9 lettersaudacious
        1. Definition: 1. invulnerable to fear or intimidation;

        Desperate10 lettersstraitened

          Desperate10 lettersdespairing

            Desperate10 lettersregardless
            1. Definition: 1. in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks; "he carried on regardless of the difficulties"

            Desperate10 lettersscandalous
            1. Definition: 1. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation;

            Desperate10 lettersdesponding

              Desperate10 lettersdetermined
              1. Definition: 1. reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations"

              Desperate11 lettersprecipitate
              1. Definition: 1. fall vertically, sharply, or headlong; "Our economy precipitated into complete ruin"

              Desperate11 lettersprecipitant

                Desperate11 lettersprecipitous
                1. Definition: 1. extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop"

                Desperate12 lettersirremediable

                  Desperate12 lettersinextricable
                  1. Definition: 1. not permitting extrication; incapable of being disentangled or untied; "an inextricable knot"; "inextricable unity"

                  Desperate14 lettersuncontrollable
                  1. Definition: 1. incapable of being controlled or managed; "uncontrollable children"; "an uncorrectable habit"

                  Desperate16 lettersstark-raving-mad


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