Synonyms of the word desire


DESIREAROUSAL - BESPEAK - FEELING - HOPE - INCLINATION - QUEST - REQUEST - TENDENCY - TRUST - WANT - WISH

desire

  • v. To want; to wish for earnestly.
  • v. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
  • v. To want emotionally or sexually.
  • v. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
  • v. To require; to demand; to claim.
  • v. To miss; to regret.
  • n. (countable) Someone or something wished for.
  • n. (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
  • n. (uncountable) Motivation.
  • n. (uncountable) The feeling of desire.

arousal

  • n. The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.
  • n. Sexual arousal.
  • n. A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart…
  • n. Arousal from sleep or hibernation.

bespeak

  • v. (transitive) To speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
  • v. (transitive) To speak for beforehand; engage in advance; make arrangements for; order or reserve in advance.
  • v. (transitive) To stipulate, solicit, ask for, or request, as in a favour.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To forbode; foretell.
  • v. (transitive, archaic, poetic) To speak to; address.
  • v. (transitive) To betoken; show; indicate; foretell; suggest.
  • v. (intransitive) To speak up or out; exclaim; speak.
  • n. A request for a specific performance; a benefit performance, by a patron.

feeling

  • adj. Emotionally sensitive.
  • adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
  • n. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
  • n. Emotion; impression.
  • n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
  • n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
  • n. Intuition.
  • n. An opinion, an attitude.
  • v. present participle of feel.

hope

  • n. (uncountable) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
  • n. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
  • n. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
  • n. (Christianity) The virtuous desire for future good.
  • v. (intransitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
  • v. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
  • v. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
  • n. (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley…
  • n. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
  • n. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

inclination

  • n. A physical tilt or bend.
  • n. A slant or slope.
  • n. A mental tendency.
  • n. (geometry) The angle of intersection of a reference plane.
  • n. (obsolete) A person or thing loved or admired.

quest

  • n. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
  • n. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
  • n. (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
  • n. (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
  • n. (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
  • v. To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
  • v. To search for; to examine.
  • v. (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.

request

  • n. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
  • n. A formal message requesting something.
  • n. Condition of being sought after.
  • n. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
  • v. to express the need or desire for.
  • v. to ask somebody to do something.

tendency

  • n. A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
  • n. (politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.

trust

  • n. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
  • n. Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
  • n. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
  • n. That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
  • n. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
  • n. (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
  • n. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
  • n. (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit…
  • n. (law) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose…
  • n. A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities…
  • n. (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
  • v. (transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
  • v. (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
  • v. (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object).
  • v. (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
  • v. (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
  • v. (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
  • v. (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
  • v. (intransitive) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
  • v. (archaic, intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
  • adj. (obsolete) Secure, safe.
  • adj. (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.
  • adj. (law) of or relating to a trust.

want

  • v. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something).
  • v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist.
  • v. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something).
  • v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
  • v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
  • n. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
  • n. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
  • n. (uncountable) Poverty.
  • n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
  • n. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

wish

  • n. a desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
  • n. an expression of such a desire etc.
  • n. the process of expressing or thinking about such a desire etc. (often connected with ideas of magic and…
  • n. the thing desired or longed for.
  • n. (Sussex) a water meadow.
  • v. (transitive) To desire; to want.
  • v. (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome).
  • v. (ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
  • v. (intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
  • v. (transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.

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