semidesperation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Uncountable

"[…]the old gentleman […] pooh-poohed the idea, and finally dismissed Henry in a state of semidesperation[…]"
"The call of semidesperation via a high-tech status symbol is an emblem of the gap between the past and the present for many of urban America’s self-employed."

From semi- + desperation.

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