1. With great urgency
   "the soil desperately needed potash"
   - urgently 
2. In intense despair
   "the child clung desperately to her mother"

See also: desperate

Encyclopedia: Desperately

• Alcott
• alcove
• Alcyonacea
• Alcyonaria
• Alcyone
• Aldactone
• Aldebaran
• aldehyde
• aldehyde group
• aldehyde radical
• aldehyde-alcohol
• aldehydic
• alder
• alder blight
• alder buckthorn
• alder dogwood
• alder tree
• alder-leaved serviceberry
• alderfly
• alderleaf Juneberry
• alderman
• aldermanic
• aldermanly
• Alderney
• aldohexose