- 4. Message (expeditiously sent), communication, missive, instruction, report.
- 5. Telegraphic despatch, telegram, message by telegraph.
Desperado, n. Dare-devil, desperate fellow, reckless man, ruffian.
Desperate, a.
- 1. Despairing, hopeless, desponding, despondent, without hope.
- 2. Wretched, forlorn, beyond hope, irretrievable, past cure, hopeless, despaired of, lost beyond recovery.
- 3. Extreme, prompted by despair, heroic, done as a last resort or in defiance of consequences.
- 4. Rash, reckless, precipitate, headlong, frantic, despairing.
- 5. (Colloq.) Great, extreme, prodigious, monstrous, supreme.
Desperation, n.
- 1. Despair, hopelessness.
- 2. Rage, fury, defiance of consequences, reckless fury.
Despicable, a. Contemptible, base, mean, abject, vile, worthless, low, paltry, pitiful.
Despise, v. a. Contemn, scorn, spurn, disdain, scout, slight, disregard, hold in contempt, look down upon.
Despite, n.
- 1. Malevolence, malignity, malice, spite.
- 2. Defiance, contempt, contemptuous opposition, contumacy.
Despite, prep. Notwithstanding, in spite of, in the face of, in the teeth of.
Despoil, v. a.
- 1. Strip, denude, divest, deprive, bereave.
- 2. Rob, plunder, pillage, ravage, devastate, rifle, fleece.