Hyphenation of desperately

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word desperately ? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

des-per-ate-ly

Definitions of desperately :

1.	With great urgency Health care reform is needed urgently The soil desperately needed potash
2.	In intense despair The child clung desperately to her mother

Synonyms of desperately :

adv	urgently

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.