Loyal vs Desperate - What's the difference?
loyal | desperate |
Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something.
Firm in allegiance to a person or institution.
Faithful to a person or cause.
Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.
* (William Shakespeare)
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, title= Without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious.
* Macaulay
Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable.
Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous.
* (William Shakespeare)
* Macaulay
Extremely intense.
As a proper noun loyal
is a town in oklahoma.As an adjective desperate is
being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.loyal
English
Adjective
(en-adj)Antonyms
* disloyal * fickle * treacherousDerived terms
* loyal toastAnagrams
* ----desperate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Since his exile she hath despised me most, / Forsworn my company and rail'd at me, / That I am desperate of obtaining her.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
- desperate expedients
- a desperate offendress against nature
- the most desperate of reprobates