Desperadoes (pl. ) of Desperado
Desperado (n.) A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.
Desperate (a.) Without hope; given to despair; hopeless.
Desperate (a.) Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
Desperate (a.) Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort.
Desperate (a.) Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
Desperate (n.) One desperate or hopeless.
Desperately (adv.) In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.
Desperateness (n.) Desperation; virulence.
Desperation (n.) The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
Desperation (n.) A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
Despicability (n.) Despicableness.
Despicable (a.) Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.
Despicableness (n.) The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
Despicably (adv.) In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy.
Despiciency (n.) A looking down; despection.
Despisable (a.) Despicable; contemptible.
Despisal (n.) A despising; contempt.
Despised (imp. & p. p.) of Despise
Despising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despise
Despise (v. t.) To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.
Despisedness (n.) The state of being despised.
Despisement (n.) A despising.
Despiser (n.) One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.
Despisingly (adv.) Contemptuously.
Despite (n.) Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.
Despite (n.) An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt.
Despited (imp. & p. p.) of Despite
Despiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despite
Despite (n.) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.
Despite (prep.) In spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices.
Despiteful (a.) Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious.
Despiteous (a.) Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous.
Despiteously (adv.) Despitefully.
Despitous (a.) Despiteous; very angry; cruel.
Despoiled (imp. & p. p.) of Despoil
Despoiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despoil
Despoil (v. t.) To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.
Despoil (v. t.) To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of.
Despoil (n.) Spoil.
Despoiler (n.) One who despoils.
Despoilment (n.) Despoliation.
Despoliation (n.) A stripping or plundering; spoliation.
Desponded (imp. & p. p.) of Despond
Desponding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despond
Despond (v. i.) To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.
Despond (n.) Despondency.
Despondence (n.) Despondency.
Despondency (n.) The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.
Despondent (a.) Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner.
Desponder (n.) One who desponds.
Despondingly (adv.) In a desponding manner.
Desponsage (n.) Betrothal.
Desponsate (v. t.) To betroth.
Desponsation (n.) A betrothing; betrothal.
Desponsories (pl. ) of Desponsory
Desponsory (n.) A written pledge of marriage.
Desport (v. t. & i.) See Disport.
Despot (n.) A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.
Despot (n.) One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.
Despotat (n.) The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot.
Despotic (a.) Alt. of Despotical
Despotical (a.) Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary.
Despotism (n.) The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny.
Despotism (n.) A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy.
Despotist (n.) A supporter of despotism.
Despotize (v. t.) To act the despot.
Despread (v. t. & i.) See Dispread.
Despumated (imp. & p. p.) of Despumate
Despumating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despumate
Despumate (v. t. & i.) To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.
Despumation (n.) The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.
Despume (v. t.) To free from spume or scum.
Desquamate (v. i.) To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.
Desquamation (n.) The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.
Desquamative (a.) Alt. of Desquamatory
Desquamatory (a.) Of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation.
Desquamatory (n.) An instrument formerly used in removing the laminae of exfoliated bones.
Dess (n.) Dais.
Dessert (n.) A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.
Destemper (n.) A kind of painting. See Distemper.
Destin (n.) Destiny.
Destinable (a.) Determined by destiny; fated.
Destinably (adv.) In a destinable manner.
Destinal (a.) Determined by destiny; fated.
Destinate (a.) Destined.
Destinate (v. t.) To destine, design, or choose.
Destination (n.) The act of destining or appointing.
Destination (n.) Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design.
Destination (n.) The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
Destined (imp. & p. p.) of Destine
Destining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Destine
Destine (v. t.) To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object preceded by to or for.
Destinist (n.) A believer in destiny; a fatalist.
Destinies (pl. ) of Destiny
Destiny (n.) That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
Destiny (n.) The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
Destituent (a.) Deficient; wanting; as, a destituent condition.
Destitute (a.) Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of.
Destitute (a.) Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor.