Respondent vs Desperate - What's the difference?
respondent | desperate |
(legal) person who answers for the defendant in a case before a court. In some legal systems, when one appeals a criminal case, one names the original court as defendant, but the state is the respondent.
One who responds. See also correspondent.
Person that participates in research involving questionnaires.
Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.
* Francis Bacon
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 adjectives the difference between respondent and desperate
is that respondent is disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding while desperate is being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.As a noun respondent
is (legal) person who answers for the defendant in a case before a court in some legal systems, when one appeals a criminal case, one names the original court as defendant, but the state is the respondent.respondent
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Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- Wealth respondent to payment and contributions.
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