desperate

In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.

I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperate for food.

desperate to eat; desperate for attention

Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.

I was so desperate at one point, I even went to see a loan shark.

Since his exile she hath despised me most, Forsworn my company and rail'd at me, That I am desperate of obtaining her.

Beyond hope, leaving little reason for hope; causing despair; extremely perilous.

a desperate disease; desperate fortune

Involving or employing extreme measures, without regard to danger or safety; reckless due to hopelessness.

In England his flute was not in request; there were no convents; and he was forced to have recourse to a series of desperate expedients.

“I knew very well that when the Peruvian Indian does anything wrong it is because he is forced to it by oppression and made desperate by abuse,” replied Lucia.

Extremely bad; outrageous, shocking; intolerable.

a desperate offendress against nature

The worst that can be laid to the charge of this poor youth, whom it has been the fashion to represent as the most desperate of reprobates, as a village Rochester, is, that he had a great liking for some diversions, quite harmless in themselves, but condemned by the rigid precisians among whom he lived, and for whose opinion he had a great respect.

Desperately.

A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc.