Definition for Desire:

• An affection of the mind, directed to the obtaining or enjoying of an object; a prayer or request to obtain; the object of desire; love or lust.

Synonyms for Desire:

• n.

  •
  • frenzy,
  • attraction,
  • craze,
  • motive,
  • cupidity,
  • yen,
  • mania,
  • avidity,
  • will,
  • voracity,
  • ardor,
  • solicitude,
  • lust after,
  • ravenousness,
  • stomach,
  • predilection,
  • hankering,
  • obsession,
  • ambition,
  • rapaciousness.
  •
  • erotism,
  • rut,
  • doting,
  • arouse,
  • fascination,
  • fervor,
  • libido,
  • hot,
  • prurience,
  • eroticism,
  • lasciviousness,
  • concupiscence,
  • lechery,
  • excited,
  • carnality,
  • heat,
  • excite.
  •
  • choose,
  • please.
  •
  • hone,
  • ache,
  • pant.
  •affection (noun)
  • love,
  • warmth.
  •appetite (noun)
  • stomach.
  •captivation (noun)
  • infatuation.
  •choice (noun)
  • determination,
  • pick,
  • decision,
  • election,
  • judgment,
  • discretion,
  • alternative,
  • selection,
  • preference,
  • choice,
  • option,
  • volition.
  •desire (noun)
  • fondness,
  • acquisitiveness,
  • passion,
  • want,
  • urge,
  • thirst,
  • greed,
  • longing,
  • trust,
  • eagerness,
  • wish,
  • hope,
  • lust,
  • Ardency,
  • covetousness,
  • expectation,
  • craving,
  • itch,
  • hunger,
  • need,
  • yearning,
  • amorousness.
  •envy (noun)
  • discontent,
  • dissatisfaction,
  • avarice,
  • resentment,
  • envy.
  •feelings (noun)
  • emotion.
  •fetish (noun)
  • partiality.
  •free will (noun)
  • Conation,
  • volition,
  • free choice.
  •hope (noun)
  • sureness,
  • anticipation,
  • optimism,
  • presumption,
  • contemplation,
  • aspiration,
  • faith,
  • confidence.
  •liking (noun)
  • favoritism.
  •love (noun)
  • intimacy,
  • idolization,
  • adoration,
  • infatuation,
  • devotion,
  • sentimentality,
  • kinship,
  • oneness,
  • liking,
  • friendliness,
  • communion,
  • affection,
  • attachment,
  • faithfulness,
  • crush,
  • endearment,
  • tenderness,
  • romance.
  •mental state (noun)
  • emotion.
  •motivation (noun)
  • predetermination.
  •obsession (noun)
  • fetish.
  •request (noun)
  • demand,
  • appeal,
  • invitation,
  • plea,
  • probe,
  • want,
  • importunity,
  • request,
  • query,
  • entreaty,
  • solicitation,
  • hope,
  • petition,
  • bid,
  • inquiry,
  • supplication,
  • summons,
  • requisition,
  • question.
  •state of mind (noun)
  • mood.
  •want, longing (noun)
  • fervor,
  • craving,
  • frenzy,
  • liking,
  • proclivity,
  • craze,
  • appetite,
  • devotion,
  • ardor,
  • admiration,
  • need,
  • fancy,
  • thirst,
  • cupidity,
  • libido,
  • motive,
  • lechery,
  • doting,
  • voracity,
  • passion,
  • rapture,
  • salacity,
  • inclination,
  • solicitude,
  • concupiscence,
  • mania,
  • covetousness,
  • avidity,
  • fondness,
  • eagerness,
  • infatuation,
  • relish,
  • ravenousness,
  • aspiration,
  • urge,
  • yearning,
  • will,
  • hankering,
  • wish,
  • predilection,
  • greed,
  • rapaciousness,
  • lasciviousness,
  • propensity,
  • hunger,
  • lust,
  • fascination,
  • ambition,
  • attraction,
  • love,
  • itch.

• v.

  •ask, request (verb)
  • entreat,
  • seek,
  • Importune,
  • bespeak,
  • solicit,
  • beg.
  •desire (verb)
  • grasp,
  • welcome,
  • crave,
  • fancy,
  • pine,
  • long,
  • hanker.
  •emotion (verb)
  • want.
  •envy (verb)
  • covet,
  • grudge,
  • begrudge,
  • resent.
  •hope (verb)
  • believe,
  • want,
  • await,
  • rely,
  • dream of,
  • anticipate,
  • intend,
  • yearn,
  • aspire,
  • contemplate,
  • presume,
  • trust,
  • assume,
  • expect.
  •hunger (verb)
  • hunger,
  • want,
  • covet,
  • crave,
  • thirst,
  • need,
  • lust.
  •love (verb)
  • cherish,
  • care,
  • love,
  • idolize,
  • worship,
  • admire,
  • infatuate,
  • adore,
  • like.
  •request (verb)
  • plead,
  • seek,
  • summon,
  • invite,
  • solicit,
  • inquire.
  •want, long for (verb)
  • lust after,
  • enjoy,
  • like,
  • covet,
  • spoil for,
  • sweet on,
  • pine,
  • yearn for,
  • hunger for,
  • choose,
  • partial to,
  • die over,
  • have eyes for,
  • crave,
  • have the hots for,
  • take a liking to,
  • make advances to,
  • fall for,
  • take to,
  • be smitten,
  • aspire to,
  • be turned on by,
  • cotton to,
  • aim,
  • go for,
  • give eyeteeth for,
  • hanker after,
  • take a shine to,
  • wish for,
  • set heart on,
  • Desiderate.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • inclination,
  • temptation,
  • erotism,
  • lasciviousness,
  • eroticism,
  • lecherous,
  • lubricious,
  • appetence,
  • libidinousness,
  • marketability,
  • avidity,
  • prurience,
  • impatience,
  • fantasize,
  • unappeasable,
  • rapaciousness,
  • grabbiness,
  • pruriency,
  • edacity,
  • Amativeness,
  • ravenousness,
  • edacious,
  • libidinous,
  • omnivorousness,
  • lustfulness.
  •
  • aspiring,
  • ambitious,
  • dream,
  • hoggish,
  • idol,
  • voracity,
  • covetous,
  • piggish,
  • jealousy,
  • avaricious,
  • stomach,
  • avid,
  • greedy,
  • arouse,
  • cupidity,
  • voracious,
  • toast,
  • rapacity,
  • languish.
  •
  • excited,
  • rapacious,
  • envious,
  • jealous,
  • plum,
  • invidious,
  • ache,
  • thrill,
  • ravenous,
  • ambition,
  • prize,
  • vocation.
  •
  • excite,
  • mission,
  • please,
  • choose,
  • pant,
  • attraction.
  •
  • drink,
  • hungry.
  •
  • hot.
  •aim
  • purpose.
  •choose
  • elect,
  • see fit.
  •craze
  • mania.
  •debauchery
  • incontinence.
  •envy
  • Hungering,
  • grudge,
  • die over.
  •fervor
  • heat.
  •hope
  • feel confident.
  •like
  • feel like.
  •longing
  • yen.
  •lust
  • lechery.
  •pursue
  • aspire to.
  •request
  • beg,
  • put in for.
  •seduction
  • debauchery.
  •sensuality
  • carnality.
  •urge
  • libido.
  •volition
  • free will.
  •will
  • pleasure.
  •Other relevant words:
  • wishful,
  • hone,
  • assign,
  • nigh,
  • hot,
  • darling,
  • hot blood,
  • whim,
  • libidinous,
  • tendency,
  • edacity,
  • envious,
  • languish,
  • nisus,
  • freely,
  • admiration,
  • sympathy,
  • ardour,
  • bespeak,
  • stomach,
  • dote upon,
  • mind,
  • prejudice,
  • yen,
  • be after,
  • want to,
  • goal,
  • surely,
  • graceful,
  • indent,
  • do with,
  • overeager,
  • peculiar,
  • beg,
  • greatly,
  • desirous,
  • cling to,
  • hardly,
  • essentially,
  • catch,
  • pining,
  • Importune,
  • greedy,
  • voraciousness,
  • appetency,
  • purposefulness,
  • fleshly lust,
  • forbidden fruit,
  • excited,
  • will and pleasure,
  • motivation,
  • directly,
  • decide,
  • preoccupation,
  • reassurance,
  • sentiment,
  • nymphomania,
  • commitment,
  • instantly,
  • Desiderate,
  • cast,
  • beseech,
  • elect,
  • goad,
  • hot pants,
  • temperament,
  • rather,
  • righteous,
  • flame,
  • object,
  • plum,
  • sincere,
  • solicitude,
  • prerequisite,
  • Intending,
  • enthusiasm,
  • study,
  • hanker after,
  • partial to,
  • fixed purpose,
  • fetish,
  • all but,
  • doting,
  • magnet,
  • pleasant,
  • keenness,
  • voracious,
  • lustfulness,
  • shortly,
  • demanding,
  • rely on,
  • Suppliance,
  • leaning,
  • parsimony,
  • impulse,
  • feel confident,
  • effect,
  • quest,
  • fascination,
  • wishes,
  • delicately,
  • meanness,
  • polymorphous perversity,
  • devices,
  • excite,
  • important,
  • opt,
  • edacious,
  • closely,
  • mean,
  • uncommon,
  • please,
  • fad,
  • sue,
  • predilection,
  • wait for,
  • destine,
  • Desideration,
  • very,
  • heartily,
  • prayer,
  • omnivorousness,
  • thirst after,
  • grab at,
  • temper,
  • heartfelt,
  • vehemence,
  • dulcet,
  • drink,
  • take to,
  • determine,
  • desirability,
  • wishing,
  • seriously,
  • frenzy,
  • assumption,
  • hungry,
  • requirement,
  • purpose,
  • have eyes for,
  • hopes,
  • entreat,
  • address,
  • supplication,
  • zest,
  • take a liking to,
  • pretty much,
  • good,
  • literally,
  • plan,
  • be attracted to,
  • imagination,
  • attitude,
  • bank on,
  • dream,
  • quite,
  • motive,
  • partiality,
  • bent,
  • assurance,
  • libido,
  • prospectus,
  • piggish,
  • make,
  • fervency,
  • much,
  • impatience,
  • pleasure principle,
  • zeal,
  • too,
  • popularity,
  • thrill,
  • highly,
  • felicitations,
  • readily,
  • close-fistedness,
  • attraction,
  • prejudgment,
  • affiance,
  • fully,
  • adjuration,
  • reliance,
  • turbulence,
  • importunity,
  • entrust,
  • bodily appetite,
  • obsession,
  • about,
  • disposition,
  • idolatry,
  • shine,
  • expressed desire,
  • fundamentally,
  • incontinence,
  • penchant,
  • hopefulness,
  • aim,
  • insistence,
  • libidinousness,
  • propensity,
  • exactly,
  • finely,
  • charity,
  • taste,
  • grabbiness,
  • proclivity,
  • completely,
  • mood,
  • pant,
  • lack,
  • moral,
  • bright,
  • craze,
  • file,
  • beloved,
  • come in,
  • be short,
  • trophy,
  • market,
  • arouse,
  • count on,
  • temptation,
  • Intendment,
  • rapaciousness,
  • choose,
  • free will,
  • appetite,
  • rapacity,
  • emotion,
  • belief,
  • eros,
  • pursue,
  • voracity,
  • infrequent,
  • compel,
  • die for,
  • feeling,
  • vagary,
  • propose,
  • wistful,
  • soundly,
  • Conatus,
  • favourite,
  • compulsion,
  • agape,
  • heat,
  • cacoethes,
  • invidious,
  • plot,
  • bias,
  • put in for,
  • desired,
  • assuredly,
  • behest,
  • aphrodisia,
  • weakness,
  • hero worship,
  • Hoping,
  • nearly,
  • anxiety,
  • pressure,
  • way,
  • see fit,
  • long for,
  • zealousness,
  • foreign,
  • extraneous,
  • agitation,
  • swear,
  • severely,
  • burn,
  • soon,
  • fantasy,
  • proposal,
  • list,
  • meaning,
  • file for,
  • commit,
  • eroticism,
  • prospect,
  • frame of mind,
  • cotton to,
  • look,
  • debauchery,
  • apply,
  • mettle,
  • prurience,
  • Lickerishness,
  • indecency,
  • dearly,
  • inclination,
  • toast,
  • vocation,
  • hankering,
  • incline,
  • proneness,
  • hold together,
  • enterprise,
  • fervour,
  • rapacious,
  • make advances to,
  • truelove,
  • penuriousness,
  • favour,
  • dependence,
  • idea,
  • thoroughly,
  • just,
  • cupidity,
  • concupiscence,
  • susceptibility,
  • striving,
  • avaricious,
  • be smitten,
  • venality,
  • almost,
  • objective,
  • strange,
  • lechery,
  • extraordinary,
  • ambitious,
  • salacity,
  • persona,
  • ask,
  • lecherousness,
  • warmth,
  • device,
  • fantasize,
  • marketability,
  • fervor,
  • miserliness,
  • think,
  • sex,
  • Thirsting,
  • Amativeness,
  • hunger for,
  • necessity,
  • chaste,
  • high hopes,
  • apply for,
  • andromania,
  • psychic energy,
  • security,
  • dote on,
  • dispose,
  • ask for,
  • loosely,
  • avidity,
  • pruriency,
  • unappeasable,
  • caprice,
  • lovemaking,
  • snatch,
  • supplicate,
  • jealousy,
  • lubricious,
  • niggardliness,
  • feel,
  • thirst for,
  • drive at,
  • entirely,
  • perfectly,
  • requisite,
  • uxoriousness,
  • brotherly love,
  • take a shine to,
  • hold to,
  • lasciviousness,
  • horniness,
  • motive force,
  • ache,
  • great expectations,
  • be lacking,
  • most,
  • accept,
  • wanting,
  • prize,
  • set heart on,
  • enjoy,
  • selfcontrol,
  • Impetration,
  • supposition,
  • spirit,
  • yearn for,
  • character,
  • gratify,
  • anxious,
  • appetence,
  • regard,
  • bloodlust,
  • lust after,
  • good cheer,
  • libidinal energy,
  • rare,
  • Propend,
  • will,
  • tolerance,
  • just about,
  • sexuality,
  • Appetition,
  • hanker for,
  • intent,
  • conviction,
  • tender feeling,
  • vote,
  • ardor,
  • selfishness,
  • ache for,
  • intention,
  • ravenous,
  • virtuous,
  • impetus,
  • ordain,
  • furor uterinus,
  • CARITAS,
  • prefer,
  • have the hots for,
  • point,
  • order,
  • rut,
  • Conation,
  • sigh for,
  • Idolism,
  • essential,
  • commend,
  • interest,
  • secureness,
  • be necessary,
  • drive,
  • avid,
  • resolve,
  • fire,
  • genuine,
  • free-lovism,
  • free choice,
  • Hungering,
  • view,
  • infantile sexuality,
  • amor,
  • satyriasis,
  • give eyeteeth for,
  • rapture,
  • die,
  • wish for,
  • end,
  • HOTS,
  • pleasure,
  • velleity,
  • fall for,
  • jump at,
  • function,
  • adopt,
  • have a mind to,
  • carnality,
  • practically,
  • salaciousness,
  • be turned on by,
  • command,
  • be willing,
  • immediately,
  • honey,
  • would like,
  • near,
  • confide,
  • be anxious,
  • aspiring,
  • ambition,
  • hope for,
  • mission,
  • asking,
  • incline to,
  • hoggish,
  • rest assured,
  • PROSPECTS,
  • bank,
  • also,
  • erotomania,
  • feel like,
  • jump,
  • avidness,
  • idol,
  • curiosity,
  • dear,
  • wish fulfillment,
  • heart,
  • virtually,
  • favor,
  • aspire to,
  • palate,
  • whistle for,
  • itch for,
  • require,
  • embrace,
  • grab,
  • intrust,
  • greediness,
  • ravenousness,
  • jealous,
  • rage,
  • ever so,
  • covetous,
  • delight,
  • desideratum,
  • certainly,
  • be eager for,
  • concern,
  • promise,
  • gravely,
  • starve,
  • honest,
  • lodestone,
  • have every intention,
  • elegant,
  • merely,
  • predisposition,
  • predetermination,
  • design,
  • animus,
  • erotism,
  • sweet on,
  • lecherous,
  • sake,
  • favoritism,
  • resolution,
  • go for,
  • force,
  • call for,
  • turn,
  • mania,
  • scheme,
  • ought to,
  • decree,
  • relish,
  • target,
  • largely,
  • earnestly,
  • thereabouts,
  • energy,
  • in case,
  • soberly,
  • stinginess,
  • counsel,
  • conjuration,
  • project,
  • application,
  • spoil for,
  • position,
  • extremely,
  • purport,
  • die over,
  • sweetheart,
  • Goatishness,
  • think fit,
  • vital,
  • be desirous of,
  • pine for.

Antonyms for Desire:

• n.

  • want, longing
    antipathy, answer, disinclination, dislike, distaste, satisfaction, coolness, indifference, hate, apathy, peacefulness, aversion, disinterest, antagonism, disgust, repulsion, reply, loathing, hatred.
  • Other antonyms:
    revulsion, nausea, frigidity, antagonism, hostility, repulsion, Disrelish, distaste, abstinence, Frigidness, uncongeniality, chastity, repugnance, antipathy, detestation, allergy, opposition, disfavor, loathing, celibacy, disinclination.

• v.

  • want, long for
    despise, abjure, not want.

Homophones for Desire:

• daguerre, dowser, dagger, decree, day care, dodger, due care, digger, dishware, decor, dowager, daycare, decry, dowitcher, De Saussure, de jure, disk error, descry, death chair, Dies Irae, dishwasher, dog-ear, dioscorea, dasyure, disarray, dish washer, disagree, dicker, docker, dozer, dekker, deck chair, deicer, disk harrow, dosser, degree, dicer, disc harrow, daiquiri, doojigger, decker, dysuria, dossier, dakar.

Hypernym for Desire:

• n.

  • attribute
    hunger, hungriness, greed, Thirstiness, thirst.
  • feeling
    whim, sexual desire, itch, bloodlust, longing, want, wishing, impulse, ambition, yearning, wish, craving, urge, caprice, dream, aspiration, temptation, eros, physical attraction, concupiscence, hungriness.
  • state
    passion, philistinism, materialism, rage.

• v.

  • emotion
    hanker, miss, go for, care, yearn, envy, long, seek, like, Lech After, crave, wish, ambition, take to, begrudge, hope, hunger, fancy, thirst, starve, wish well, lust after, feel like, itch, spoil, lust.

Hyponym for Desire:

• n.

  • attribute
    inclination, tendency.
  • feeling
    feeling.
  • state
    arousal.

• v.

  • emotion
    bespeak, call for, ask for, request, quest.