Desire Synonyms and Antonyms

dĭ-zīr
Wish
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. request
  2. hope
  3. want
The wish to enjoy
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. craving
  2. appetite
  3. longing
  4. aspiration
  5. appetency
  6. yen
  7. greed
  8. cupidity
  9. wish
  10. hunger
  11. yearning
  12. thirst
  13. propensity
  14. will
  15. itch
  16. inclination
  17. passion
  18. hankering
  19. proclivity
  20. want
  21. appetence
  22. motive
  23. urge
  24. eagerness
  25. ardor
  26. solicitude
  27. predilection
  28. fancy
  29. avidity
  30. covetousness
  31. obsession
  32. frenzy
  33. appetition
  34. craze
  35. mania
  36. cacoethes
  37. concupiscence
  38. attraction
  39. rapaciousness
  40. desiderata
  41. fondness
  42. liking
  43. desideration
  44. entreaty
  45. eros
  46. ravenousness
  47. lust
  48. ardent impulse
  49. gluttony
  50. voracity
  51. relish
  52. grasping
  53. impulse
  54. monomania
  55. pining
  56. insatiability
  57. insatiety
  58. stomach
  59. libido
  60. orexis
  61. petition
  62. pruriency
  63. quest
  64. request
  65. velleity
Antonyms:
  1. indifference
  2. apathy
  3. aversion
To want sexually
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. want
  2. wish
  3. crave
  4. lust (after)
  5. choose
  6. long-for
  7. like
  8. hunger for
  9. wish for
  10. please
  11. covet
  12. have-the-hots-for
  13. be turned on by
  14. will
  15. have hot pants for
Erotic wish to possess
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. concupiscence
  2. lust
  3. passion
  4. eroticism
  5. erotism
  6. prurience
  7. urge
  8. hunger
  9. amativeness
  10. appetite
  11. fascination
  12. doting
  13. infatuation
  14. fervor
  15. excitement
  16. amorousness
  17. sexual love
  18. carnality
  19. libido
  20. lechery
  21. lasciviousness
  22. sensual appetite
  23. sexual-appetite
  24. itch
  25. priapism
  26. carnal passion
  27. salaciousness
  28. libidinousness
  29. lecherousness
  30. erotomania
  31. satyriasis
  32. nymphomania
  33. biological urge
  34. lustfulness
  35. estrus
  36. the hots
  37. rut
  38. heat
  39. horniness
  40. lech
  41. pruriency
Antonyms:
  1. apathy
  2. aversion
  3. antipathy
  4. inappetency
  5. answer
  6. reply
  7. antagonism
  8. abstinence
  9. coldness
  10. frigidity
  11. indifference
  12. repulsion
  13. disgust
  14. dislike
  15. distaste
  16. hate
  17. hatred
To request
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. ask-for
  2. seek
  3. solicit
Antonyms:
  1. antipathy
  2. apathy
  3. aversion
  4. inappetency
  5. answer
  6. reply
  7. antagonism
  8. repulsion
  9. disgust
  10. dislike
  11. distaste
  12. hate
  13. hatred
  14. not want
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. advantageous
  2. advisable
  3. appetitive
  4. aspirational
  5. attractive
  6. desiderative
  7. desirable
  8. expedient
  9. gluttonous
  10. insatiable
  11. omnivorous
  12. optative
  13. optimal
  14. orectic
  15. voracious

Words Related to Desire

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Desire Sentence Examples

  • We have a natural desire to want to help others.

  • Sarah couldn't understand her desire to be alone, but she accepted it.

  • She had little desire any more.

  • I have no desire to interfere with something about which I know nothing.

  • It was almost the fire of desire, yet too raw.

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