Word Meanings - DESIRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

sidus star, constellation, and hence orig., to turn the eyes from the 1. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson. 2. To express a wish

Additional info about word: DESIRE

sidus star, constellation, and hence orig., to turn the eyes from the 1. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson. 2. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request. Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord 2 Kings iv. 28. Desire him to go in; trouble him no more. Shak. 3. To require; to demand; to claim. A doleful case desires a doleful song. Spenser. 4. To miss; to regret. She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies. Jer. Taylor. Syn. -- To long for; hanker after; covet; wish; ask; request; solicit; entreat; beg. -- To Desire, Wish. In desire the feeling is usually more eager than in wish. "I wish you to do this" is a milder form of command than "I desire you to do this," though the feeling prompting the injunction may be the usage C. J. Smith.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESIRE)

• Affect
• Like
• desire
• favor
• seek
• assume
• move
• influence
• concern
• interest
• feign
• pretend
• Affection
• Influence
• condition
• state
• inclination
• bent
• mood
• humor
• feeling
• love
• propensity
• Appetite
• Passion
• proclivity
• propension
• appetency
• want
• craving
• disposition
• tendency
• proneness
• Aspiration
• Longing
• aim
• wish
• ambition
• endeavor
• hope
• appetition
• effort
• eagerness
• Avidity
• Cupidity
• avarice
• greed
• longing
• rapacity

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DESIRE)

• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract

Related words: (words related to DESIRE)

• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• GREETING
  Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment.
• GREENLET
  l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
• GRENADO
  See GRENADE
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• HUMOR
  A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple. 3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• LONGIPALP
  One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
• LONGSPUN
  Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.
• FAVOR
  Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
• GREENSAND
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• GREENOCKITE
  Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
• LONGSOME
  Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.
• LONGULITE
  A kind of crystallite having a acicular form.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GOOD-HUMORED
  Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• ARM-GRET
  Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.
• AGGREGATOR
  One who aggregates.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• SANGRAAL; SANGREAL
  See GRAIL