1) Condition 2) Despair 3) Desperate recklessness 4) French word used in English 5) Hopelessness 6) Reason for a Hail Mary pass 7) Sculpture by Auguste Rodin 8) Status 9) The act or fact of despairing 1) Despair 2) Resolution 
• (n.) The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope. • (n.) A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
Des`per·a'tion noun [ Latin desperatio : confer Old French desperation .] 1. The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope. « This desperation of success chills all our industry.» Hammond. 2. A state of despair, or utter ho...
[n] - desperate recklessness
desperation 1. A situation in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly. 2. Recklessness brought on by great urgency and anxiety. 3. A condition of being without hope.
noun desperate recklessness; `it was a policy of desperation`
the state of being desperate or of having the recklessness of despair. · the act or fact of despairing; despair.
a state in which all hope is lost or absent