desperately

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

desperately
    adv 1: with great urgency; "health care reform is needed
           urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash" [syn:
           {urgently}, {desperately}]
    2: in intense despair; "the child clung desperately to her
       mother"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Desperately \Des"per*ate*ly\, adv.
   In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety;
   recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.
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         She fell desperately in love with him.   --Addison.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

46 Moby Thesaurus words for "desperately":
      a corps perdu, carelessly, demonically, fanatically, fiercely,
      forlornly, frantically, frenetically, furiously, happen what may,
      hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong,
      heedlessly, heels over head, helter-skelter, holus-bolus,
      hopelessly, hotheadedly, hotly, hurriedly, hurry-scurry,
      impetuously, impossibly, like crazy, like mad, like one possessed,
      madly, overeagerly, overenthusiastically, overzealously,
      precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, ramble-scramble,
      recklessly, severely, slam-bang, slap-bang, slapdash,
      uncontrollably, violently, wantonly, wildly