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.

  •
  • hone.
  •affection (noun)
  • warmth.
  •choice (noun)
  • determination,
  • pick,
  • decision,
  • judgment,
  • alternative,
  • selection,
  • volition,
  • choice,
  • option,
  • discretion.
  •desire (noun)
  • expectation,
  • craving,
  • want,
  • greed,
  • Ardency,
  • acquisitiveness,
  • trust,
  • amorousness,
  • urge.
  •envy (noun)
  • discontent,
  • dissatisfaction,
  • avarice,
  • resentment.
  •feelings (noun)
  • emotion.
  •fetish (noun)
  • partiality.
  •free will (noun)
  • Conation,
  • free choice.
  •hope (noun)
  • contemplation,
  • sureness,
  • anticipation,
  • confidence,
  • presumption,
  • optimism,
  • faith.
  •liking (noun)
  • favoritism.
  •love (noun)
  • endearment,
  • romance,
  • devotion,
  • kinship,
  • tenderness,
  • adoration,
  • idolization,
  • sentimentality,
  • attachment,
  • faithfulness,
  • intimacy,
  • oneness,
  • communion,
  • friendliness.
  •motivation (noun)
  • predetermination.
  •request (noun)
  • question,
  • solicitation,
  • requisition,
  • probe,
  • demand,
  • entreaty,
  • query,
  • appeal,
  • plea,
  • inquiry,
  • summons,
  • request,
  • invitation.

• v.

  •ask, request (verb)
  • bespeak.
  •desire (verb)
  • grasp,
  • hanker,
  • crave,
  • welcome.
  •envy (verb)
  • covet,
  • grudge,
  • begrudge,
  • resent.
  •hope (verb)
  • believe,
  • await,
  • presume,
  • contemplate,
  • rely,
  • anticipate,
  • expect,
  • assume,
  • intend.
  •love (verb)
  • cherish,
  • idolize,
  • worship,
  • adore,
  • infatuate,
  • admire.
  •request (verb)
  • invite,
  • plead,
  • inquire,
  • summon.

• Other synonyms:

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

Paraphrases for Desire:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    desired, Desiring.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    yearning, ambition, thirst.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    interested, willing.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Desiderata, inclination, sentiment, attempt, purpose, request, effort, demand, wishing, dream, vow, vows, reluctance, sake, tendency, objective, decisiveness.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    AM, aspire, Got, request, requests, demand, strive.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    Aspirations, willingness.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    aspiration, determination, intention, longing, eagerness, desirability, intent, interest, willpower, craving, unwillingness, appetite, quest, willingness, concern, keenness, wanting, expectation, spirit, dedication, motivation, drive, goodwill, preoccupation, volition, greed, pursuit, impulse.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    wanting.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    willingness, require.

Antonyms for Desire:

• n.

  • want, longing
    hatred, reply, peacefulness, dislike, apathy, aversion, hate, answer, disinterest, coolness, satisfaction, indifference, disgust.
  • 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.