Thesaurus / desires
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synonyms for desires
- ambition
- appetite
- aspiration
- craving
- devotion
- eagerness
- fascination
- greed
- hunger
- inclination
- love
- lust
- motive
- need
- passion
- thirst
- will
- wish
- yearning
- admiration
- ardor
- attraction
- avidity
- concupiscence
- covetousness
- craze
- cupidity
- doting
- fancy
- fervor
- fondness
- frenzy
- hankering
- infatuation
- itch
- lasciviousness
- lechery
- libido
- liking
- mania
- predilection
- proclivity
- propensity
- rapaciousness
- rapture
- ravenousness
- relish
- salacity
- solicitude
- urge
- voracity
- enjoy
- crave
- covet
- like
- fancy
- aim
- choose
- pine
- thirst
- fall for
- go for
- wish for
- aspire to
- be smitten
- be turned on by
- cotton to
- desiderate
- die over
- give eyeteeth for
- hanker after
- have eyes for
- have the hots for
- hunger for
- lust after
- make advances to
- partial to
- set heart on
- spoil for
- sweet on
- take a liking to
- take a shine to
- take to
- yearn for
antonyms for desires
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I, therefore, deliver it as a maxim, that whoever desires the character of a proud man ought to conceal his vanity.
PEARLS OF THOUGHTMATURIN M. BALLOUSympathising with its desires, Benjy changed his posture, and managed just to touch the nose of his enemy.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNEI want it to be great, free, and happy, and to shape its own destinies according to its desires and aspirations.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMANIn many cases an agency is created for an indefinite period, and in these either party can terminate it whenever he desires.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLESHuman desires would eat up the result of ten times the work we now accomplish.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKNew and feverish desires for luxuries replace each older want as satisfied.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKThe Dictionary we have compiled will tell the amateur what names will most probably supply the qualities he desires.
VIOLINS AND VIOLIN MAKERSJOSEPH PEARCENow she must centre her desires, her hopes, her intentions elsewhere, if she centred them anywhere.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSFor this Double, or astral body as you call it, is really the seat of the passions, emotions and desires in the psychical economy.
THREE MORE JOHN SILENCE STORIESALGERNON BLACKWOODCould all these people read her mind and follow the track of her distastes and desires, even the dragomans and the donkey-boys?
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