desire

Meaning

1. To want; to wish for earnestly.
2. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
3. To want emotionally or sexually.
4. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
5. To require; to demand; to claim.
6. To miss; to regret.

wish

want

wish for

anxious to

emotion

hope for

require

yearn for

longing for

lust after

ability

crave for

love passionately

be fond of

decide for

be anxious to

aspire to

lust for

hanker for

be eager for

hanker after

be determined

be in demand

would like to

be loved

desire eagerly

druthers

eager desire

felicific calculus

luxuria

romance

set one’s heart on

sexual desire

the hots

be sexually aroused

want very much

sexual passion

shade of colour

shade of color

Tanha

aim to get

be ambitious

mean to

set one’s sights on

want exceedingly

lech after

ardent wish

be desirous

craving after

desire of doing

inclination of mind

longing after

seek to get

strive after greedily

striving after

eagerners

what one aims at

wish for eagerly

crave strongly for

unfulfillcd want

good

👍

queem

Libido

admire

be in heat

be popular

cross one’s fingers

famish

interested in

look out for

search for

Frequency

Hyphenated as

de‧sire

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈzaɪə/

From Middle English desire (noun) and desiren (verb), from Old French desirer, desirrer, from Latin dēsīderō (“to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”), apparently from de- + sidus (in the phrase de sidere, "from the stars") in connection with astrological hopes. Compare consider and desiderate. Displaced native Old English wilnung (“desire”) and wilnian (“to desire”).

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