Definition for Desideratum:

• Anything desired; a want or desire generally felt and recognized.

Synonyms for Desideratum:

• adj.

  •objective (adjective)
  • hope,
  • goal.

• n.

  •goal (noun)
  • aim.
  •necessity (noun)
  • demand,
  • fundamental,
  • claim,
  • cause,
  • prerequisite,
  • exaction,
  • exigency,
  • duress,
  • obligation,
  • necessary,
  • no choice,
  • indispensability,
  • needfulness,
  • sine qua non,
  • stress,
  • inevitability,
  • urgency,
  • essence,
  • imperative,
  • want,
  • privation,
  • undeniability,
  • godsend,
  • vitals,
  • no alternative,
  • precondition,
  • inexorableness,
  • life or death,
  • vital part,
  • compulsion,
  • call,
  • requisite,
  • must,
  • pinch,
  • essential.
  •need (noun)
  • longing,
  • the urge,
  • extremity,
  • use,
  • occasion,
  • committal,
  • charge,
  • commitment,
  • ought,
  • duty,
  • devoir,
  • weakness,
  • right.
  •object (noun)
  • desideratum.
  •requirement/requisite (noun)
  • engrossment,
  • obsession,
  • lack,
  • prescription,
  • prepossession,
  • specification,
  • proviso,
  • element,
  • terms,
  • fulfillment,
  • preoccupation,
  • provision,
  • stipulation,
  • condition,
  • qualification,
  • preliminary,
  • concern.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • requirement.
  •
  • need,
  • necessity.

Antonyms for Desideratum:

• n.

  • aim
    purposelessness, thoughtlessness, hate, dislike, neglect, aimlessness, avoidance, hatred.
  • necessity
    desire, trivia, extra, auxiliary.
  • need
    riches, wealth, luxury, have, plenty, comfort, fortune, nonessential.
  • requirement
    abundance, lot, indifference.
  • requirement/requisite
    wish, option.

Desideratum Sentence Examples:

• To effect this desideratum, therefore, they toast the grain to blackness, boil it to bitterness, and then drink scalding stuff of the consistency of water - gruel.

• That's the grand desideratum of my wishes.

Homophones for Desideratum:

• detached retina, distortion, dextrorotation.

Hyponym for Desideratum:

• n.

  • object
    essential, necessary, requisite, requirement, necessity.