deSire

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [The wish to enjoy]

Syn. aspiration, longing, yearning, craving, wish, want, motive, will, urge, eagerness, ardor, solicitude, propensity, predilection, fancy, greed, avidity, Cupidity, covetousness, obsession, frenzy, craze, mania, urge, appetite, hunger, thirst, passion, attraction, rapaciousness, fondness, liking, inclination, proclivity, ravenousness, ardent impulse, voracity, relish, grasping, monomania, pining, hankering*, itch*, stomach*, yen*; see also ambition 1 , greed .

Ant. indifference*, apathy, aversion.

2. [Wish]

Syn. request, hope, want; see wish 2 .

3. [Erotic wish to possess]

Syn. lust, concupiscence, passion, urge, hunger, appetite, fascination, doting, infatuation, fervor, excitement, amorousness, sexual love, carnality, libido, lechery, lasciviousness, sensual appetite, sexual appetite, prurience, priapism, carnal passion, salaciousness, lecherousness, erotism, eroticism, erotomania, satyriasis, nymphomania, biological urge, estrus, the hots*, rut*, heat*, horniness*, lech*; see also love 1 .

Ant. abstinence*, coldness, frigidity.

v.

1. [To wish for]

Syn. want, long for, crave, covet, fancy, aspire, yearn for, desiderate, set one's heart on, ache for*, die for*, die to*; see also want 1 , yearn .

2. [To request]

Syn. ask for, seek, solicit; see beg 1 .

3. [To want sexually]

Syn. lust after, long for, hunger for, wish for, have the hots for*, be turned on by*, have hot pants for*; see also want 1 .

Syn.- deSire , generally interchangeable with the other words here in the sense of `to long for," stresses intensity or ardor [ to deSire success ] ; wish is not so strong a term as deSire and has special application when an unrealizable longing is meant [ he wished summer were here ] ; want , specifically suggesting a longing for something lacking or needed, generally is a more informal equivalent of wish [ she wants , or wishes , to go with us ] ; crave suggests a strong deSire to gratify a physical appetite or an urgent need [ to crave affection ]