Desire

Verb

 * 1) More formal or stronger word for want.
 * 2) Another word for want, connoting emotion.

Noun

 * 1) Someone or something wished for.
 * 2)  Strong attraction, particularly romantic.
 * 3)  The feeling of desire.

Adjectives for Desire
intense; longing; laudable; childish; sweet gallant; brutal; extravagant; haughty; un extinct; fair; express; elevated; deferred sensuous; corrupt; sentimental; customary ardent; imperious; vague; earnest; devoted; prayerful; crushing; passionate overpowering; innocent; noble; hearty morbid; quaint; amiable; imperative; corn mendable; lifelong; insatiable; irresistible confused; dark; furious; comfortable; cold mistaken; automatic; lost; cordial; acute unjust; scant; feeble; magnanimous; instinctive; slightest; warm; fond; faintest inordinate; subtle; burning; infinite; sin cere; countless (pi); selfish; conscientious petty; frenzied; anxious; mad; implacable consuming; inhibited; troublesome; deliberate; illimitable; excessive; benevolent impatient; keen; pure; gnawing; restless parching; unsatisfied; prevailing; quick impetuous; known; longing; genuine; unlawful; subdued; strong; unacknowledged high; insane; hot; dangerous; dominant vehement; ungratified;  dimmest;  vain proud; fiery; carnal; special; evident; unholy; torturing; inflamed; scattering; anxious; nervous; appeased; individual; egotistical; wolfish; bloody; ravenous; amorous; defrauded; emotional; covetous; honest; untamable; aimless; chaste; practical; feverish; mistaken; dwarfed; perceptible; wild; increasing; repressed; sacred; soft; delicate; wistful; sordid; ungenerous; laudable; lascivious; false; philanthropic; quenchless; onbaffled; phlegmatic; personal; boundless; loving; touching; lurking; popular; absurd; reasonable; senile; universal; apparent.

Adverbs for Desire
passionately; earnestly; ardently; eminently; obviously; insistently; presumably; unquestionably; particularly; intensely; consistently; unanimously; gallantly; extravagantly; brutally; sensually; customarily; imperiously; overpoweringly; nobly; heartily; morbidly; quaintly; insatiably; automatically; cordially; acutely; inordinately; burningly; infinitely; implacably; consumingly; benevolently; impatiently; gnawingly; genuinely; unlawfully; vainly; vehemently; carnally; torturingly; egotistically; ravenously; amorously; emotionally; chastely; delicately; wistfully; sordidly; ungenerously; lasciviously; boundlessly; touchingly; personally; absurdly.

Synonyms for Desire
longing, yearning, craving, wish, affection, ambition, zeal, eagerness, ardor, propensity, coveting, concupiscence, inclination.

Antonyms for Desire
repulsion, disgust, dislike, opposition, aversion, distaste, antagonism, abhorrence, detestation.

Related terms

 * desirable
 * desirous

Thesaurus
lust, lust after, lustfulness, magnet, make a request, make a requisition, make application, married love, mean, meaning, mind, motive, nisus, nurture the hope, nymphomania, objective, order, pant, passion, petition, physical love, pine, pine for, pining, plan, pleasure, plum, point, polymorphous perversity, popular regard, popularity, prayerful hope, prefer, presume, presumption, prize, project, promise, proposal, propose, prospect, prospects, prospectus, prurience, pruriency, purport, purpose, put in for, rapacity, regard, reliance, rely on, request, require, requirement, requisition, resolution, resolve, rest assured, rut, sake, salaciousness, sanguine expectation, satyriasis, satyrism, security, see fit, sentiment, sex, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual love, sexual passion, shine, sigh for, snatch, snatch at, solicit, spiritual love, striving, study, summon, take to, temptation, tender feeling, tender passion, think, think fit, think good, think proper, thirst, thirsting, trophy, truelove, trust, urge, uxoriousness, velleity, venereal appetite, view, volition, want, weakness, well-grounded hope, whistle for, will, will power, wish, wish for, wish to goodness, wish very much, worship, would fain do, yearn, yearn for, yearning, yen, Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, address, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, aim, aim at, ambition, andromania, animus, aphrodisia, appeal, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition, application, apply for, ardency, ardor, ask, ask for, asking, aspiration, aspire, aspire after, aspire to, assumption, assurance, assured faith, attachment, avarice, bank on, be after, be desirous of, be in heat, beg leave, bespeak, biological urge, bodily appetite, bodily love, brotherly love, call for, caritas, carnal desire, catch, charity, cheerful expectation, choice, choose, choose to, come in, command, conation, conatus, concupiscence, confide, confidence, conjugal love, conviction, counsel, count on, covet, crave, craving, cupidity, dearest wish, decide, decision, decree, demand, dependence, desiderate, desideration, desideratum, desiderium, design, destine, determination, determine, devotion, discretion, disposition, doomed hope, drive at, effect, enjoy, entreaty, eromania, eros, eroticism, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, estruate, expect, expectation, expressed desire, fair prospect, faith, faithful love, fancy, favor, feel confident, fervent hope, fervor, file for, fixed purpose, flame, fleshly lust, fondness, forbidden fruit, free choice, free love, free will, free-lovism, function, furor uterinus, glimmering goal, go for, goatishness, golden vision, good cheer, good hope, grab, grab at, great expectations, greed, gynecomania, hanker, hanker after, hankering, harbor a design, harbor the hope, have designs on, have every intention, heart, hero worship, high hopes, hope, hope against hope, hope and pray, hope for, hope in, hope to God, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, hunger, hungering, idea, idolatry, idolism, idolization, impetration, importune, inclination, indecency, indent, infantile sexuality, intend, intendment, intent, intention, itch, itch for, jump at, lasciviousness, lean upon, lecherousness, lechery, libidinousness, libido, lickerishness, like, liking, live in hopes, lodestone, long, long for, longing, love, lovemaking,

Etymology
< desiren: <  desirrer: <  desidero:, apparently < de-: + sidus: (see sidereal), but the connection of thought is not clear; compare consider. Compare also desiderate.

Verb

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Croatian: ,
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: השתוקק
 * Korean: 바라다 (barada), 원하다 (wonhada),
 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian: vēlēties


 * Lithuanian: trokšti, pageidauti
 * Macedonian: сака
 * Persian: خواسته
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: желать (želát’)
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: önska, begära, eftertrakta, längta
 * Tamil: ஆசை
 * Telugu:, కోరిక, ఇచ్చ, అపేక్ష, అభిలాష, వాంఛ


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:, жадувам
 * Czech:
 * Danish: begære, attrå
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: חשק, השתוקק
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean:


 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:
 * Latvian: kāroties, kārot, alkt
 * Lithuanian: trokšti, geisti
 * Macedonian: посакува
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: желать (želát’), вожделеть (voždelét’)
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: begära, åtrå

Noun

 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 욕망
 * Kurdish:, ,
 * Latvian: vēlēšanās, vēlme


 * Lithuanian: troškimas, noras, pageidavimas
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: ആഗ്രഹം, മോഹം
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, deziderat
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: önskan, längtan
 * Volapük: desir


 * Armenian: կիրք
 * Bulgarian:, жадуване
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: begær, lyst
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latvian: iekāre, alkas


 * Lithuanian: geismas, potraukis, aistra
 * Macedonian: копнеж,
 * Malayalam: ആഗ്രഹം
 * Old English:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovene: poželenje
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: begär, åtrå
 * Telugu: ఆకర్షణ


 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 慾望, 欲望 (yùwàng)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish: ,


 * Latvian: iekāre, alkas, kaisle, kaislība
 * Lithuanian: geismas, aistra
 * Macedonian: копнеж,
 * Malayalam: മോഹം
 * Old English:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: drùis, baois , baoiseachd , feòlmhorachd
 * Slovene: poželenje
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: begär, lust, längtan
 * Telugu: కోరిక

Anagrams

 * eiders
 * reside