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desire

[dih-zahyuhr] / dɪˈzaɪər /




VERB
ask, request
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG
WEAK
not want


Usage

What are other ways to say desire? Desire, a formal verb, suggests a strong wish: They desire liberation. Wish implies the feeling of an impulse toward attainment or possession of something; the strength of the feeling may be of greater or lesser intensity: I wish I could go home. Want, usually colloquial in use, suggests a feeling of lack or need that imperatively demands fulfillment: People all over the world want peace.

Example Sentences

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“It isn’t easy, no one is saying that it will be 100% right away, but nevertheless, we must bring the desired result closer with every such meeting, every such conversation.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The book is about the dangers of monstrous appetites but also about the melancholy of unrealized desires.

From The Wall Street Journal

If anything makes us specifically human animals, she suggests, it’s the desire not to be the other kind.

From The Wall Street Journal

And he certainly has the talent, desire and ambition to do so.

From Los Angeles Times

Too much time spent on Marty’s mother or his fierce opponent would distract from the film’s momentum, reducing it to simply a sports movie, and not a conclusive treatise on the cruelty of desire.

From Salon