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prettygoodwordsperate (SPER-ait) - adj., hoped for; to be hoped for.
A rare general sense, and a slightly less rare legal sense -- a sperate debt is one likely to be recovered (while a desperate debt is unlikely to be recouped). The negative form of desperate is, of course, more common. Adopted around 1550 from Latin speratus, past participle of sperare, to hope.
---L.
A rare general sense, and a slightly less rare legal sense -- a sperate debt is one likely to be recovered (while a desperate debt is unlikely to be recouped). The negative form of desperate is, of course, more common. Adopted around 1550 from Latin speratus, past participle of sperare, to hope.
---L.
