desire

v

1. wish for, long for, desiderate, want; yearn for, hope for, care for, pine for, sigh for; hanker after, have a yen for, covet, fancy, have a fancy for; have an eye to, be attracted to, have a mind to, have at heart, be bent upon; be inclined towards, be prone to, be predisposed towards, prefer; aspire to, emulate, set one's heart on; crave, hunger, thirst, relish; lust after, burn for, Inf. be wild or mad about, Sl. have the hots for, Inf. letch after; eye, eyeball.

2. ask for, request, summon, solicit, importune; petition, entreat, urge, plead; beseech, beg, implore, supplicate, adjure; endeavor to obtain, appeal for, apply to; requisition, order, demand, require.

n

3. longing, wish, wishing, desirieration, want, wanting; yearning, hope, hoping, pining, sighing, hankering, Inf. yen, Sl. itch, fondness, liking; attraction, aspiration, emulation, ambition; inclination, predilection, preference, propensity, proclivity; predisposal, predisposedness, bent, leaning, disposition; fancy, fancying, coveting, covetousness, eagerness, ardor, craving; appetency, appetite, hunger, thirst, ravenousness; relish, rapaciousness, voracity, voraciousness; avidity, greed, greediness, cupidity, avarice, grasp-ingness; frenzy, mania, craze, rage.

4. request, solicitation, importunity; petition, entreaty, adjuration, urge, urging; pleading, beseeching, beseechingness, begging, imploring, imploringness, imploration; supplication, prayer, appeal; application, requisition, demand, call, summons, order, requirement.

5. lust, lustfulness, concupiscence, libido, sexual appetite or urge, aphrodisia; lewdness, bawdiness, Archaic. bawdry, wantonness; lasciviousness, salaciousness, salacity, lubricity, libidinousness; carnal passion, prurience, pruriency, Pathol. satyriasis, Pathol. nymphomania; lechery, lecherousness, Sl. letch, Sl. the hots, burning; (all of animals) heat, rut, estrus; eroticism, erotism, sensuality, sexuality.