desperately

Words with a similar base: desperately

'desperately'

[urgently.r.01] as in: with great urgency

Examples:
health care reform is needed urgently
the soil desperately needed potash

'desperately'

[desperately.r.02] as in: in intense despair

Examples:
the child clung desperately to her mother

Origins

					desperately (English)
├── -ly (English)
│   ├── -lice (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
│   └── -ly (Middle English (1100-1500))
└── desperate (English)
    └── desperatus (Latin)

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