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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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“Our growth is currently only limited globally by our production capacity and desire to maintain scarcity; consumer demand remains robust globally,” Reichert said.

From The Wall Street Journal

To have no needs or desires, in the Cynic view, conferred a power greater than that of a king.

From The Wall Street Journal

It had the desired effect - Fallout 4, the most recent big title, topped sales charts nine years after its original release.

From BBC

A widget helps walk through the options and will calculate how much of the investment you need to make for the desired monthly benefit.

From MarketWatch

The sticking points are the NFL’s desire to have greater access to officials and the ability to implement a performance-based model—along with the financial cost to get what it wants from the union.

From The Wall Street Journal