desperately

About 5.79 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adverb In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly.

   She desperately grabbed at the nearby branches as she heard the branch she was standing on start to snap.

2. adverb Extremely.

   The race for silver medal was desperately close, they needed a photo finish to separate the runners.

Similar words

urgently cruelly badly awfully disappointingly horrendously horribly appallingly dreadfully terribly

Often followed by

to needed wanted in trying for need poor ill