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synonyms for desirous

  • wishful
  • acquisitive
  • ambitious
  • amorous
  • anxious
  • avid
  • covetous
  • craving
  • desiring
  • eager
  • enthusiastic
  • grasping
  • greedy
  • hot
  • itchy
  • keen
  • longing
  • lustful
  • passionate
  • prehensile
  • ready
  • stimulated
  • turned on
  • willing
  • wishing
  • yearning

antonyms for desirous

MOST RELEVANT
  • reluctant
  • unambitious
  • unenthusiastic
  • unhopeful
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How to use desirous in a sentence

As consumers become more desirous of sustainability, responsible shopping, green travel and plant-based food alternatives “will likely contribute to a surge in companies in this space,” said Sofia Dolfe of Index Ventures.
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That’s disturbing in various ways because it means that you are almost desirous of infection within those groups.
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It is ill-bred, and looks as if you were unaccustomed to such pleasures, and so desirous to prolong each one.
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None of them are desirous of continuing after death the part which they have, perhaps, so frequently commenced in this life.
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Flora had been long desirous to effect a regular call at Abbotstoke, and it was just now that she succeeded.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGE
Every wise and honest man is desirous to soothe the angry passions of our neighbours.
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They mean to visit Bath again this spring, and I am very desirous that you should be better acquainted with her.
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Of this I am assured by John Poindexter, who seems very desirous of aiding me in my attempt to win his daughter's heart.
THE CIRCULAR STUDYANNA KATHARINE GREEN
“I advise everyone desirous of dominion to preach that duty, in and out of season,” said Madame Bertaux.
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRD
Her majesty is desirous that you should consider the laws which regulate the trade in corn.
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WORDS RELATED TO DESIROUS

  • avaricious
  • avid
  • covetous
  • demanding
  • desirous
  • grabbing
  • grabby
  • grasping
  • greedy
  • predatory
  • prehensile
  • rapacious
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.