mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant,
predilection; propensity &c 820; willingness &c 602; liking, love,
fondness, relish.
longing, hankering, inkling; solicitude, anxiety; yearning,
coveting; aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition; eagerness, zeal,
ardor, empressement [Fr.], breathless impatience, overanxiety;
impetuosity, &c 825.
appetite, appetition†, appetence†, appetency†; sharp appetite,
keenness, hunger, stomach, twist; thirst, thirstiness; drouth,
mouthwatering; itch, itching; prurience, cacoethes [Lat.], cupidity,
lust, concupiscence.
edge of appetite, edge of hunger; torment of Tantalus; sweet
tooth, lickerish tooth†; itching palm; longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's
eye.
[excessive desire for money] greed &c 817.1.
voracity &c (gluttony) 957.
passion, rage, furore†, mania, manie†; inextinguishable desire;
dipsomania, kleptomania.
[Person who desires] lover, amateur, votary, devotee, aspirant,
solicitant, candidate, applicant, supplicant; cormorant &c 957.
[Object of desire] desideratum; want &c (requirement) 630; a
consummation devoutly to be wished; attraction, magnet, allurement,
fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's
ambition, idol; whim, whimsy, whimsey†; maggot; hobby, hobby-horse.
Fortunatus's cap; wishing cap, wishing stone, wishing well.
V. desire; wish, wish for; be desirous &c adj.. have a longing &c n.;
hope &c 858.
care for, affect, like, list; take to, cling to, take a fancy to;
fancy; prefer &c (choose) 609.
have an eye, have a mind to; find it in one's heart &c (be
willing) 602; have a fancy for, set one's eyes upon; cast a sheep's eye
upon, look sweet upon; take into one's head, have at heart, be bent
upon; set one's cap at, set one's heart upon, set one's mind upon;
covet.
want, miss, need, feel the want of, would fain have, would fain
do; would be glad of.
be hungry &c adj.; have a good appetite, play a good knife and
fork; hunger after, thirst after, crave after, lust after, itch after,
hanker after, run mad after; raven for, die for; burn to.
desiderate†; sigh for, cry for, gape for, gasp for, pine for, pant
for, languish for, yearn for, long, be on thorns for, hope for; aspire
after; catch at, grasp at, jump at.
woo, court, solicit; fish for, spell for, whistle for, put up for;
ogle.
cause desire, create desire, raise desire, excite desire, provoke
desire; whet the appetite; appetize†, titillate, allure, attract, take
one's fancy, tempt; hold out temptation, hold out allurement;
tantalize, make one's mouth water, faire venir l'eau a la bouche [Fr.].
gratify desire &c (give pleasure) 829.
Adj. desirous; desiring &c v.; inclined &c (willing) 602; partial to;
fain, wishful, optative†; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for,
sedulous, solicitous.
craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish†, ravening, with an empty
stomach, esurient†, lickerish†, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst,
pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy†; hungry as a hunter, hungry
as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a
bear.
[excessively desirous] greedy &c 817.1.
unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked; unsaturated.
eager, avid, keen; burning, fervent, ardent; agog; all agog;
breathless; impatient &c (impetuous) 825; bent on, intent on, set on,
bent upon, intent upon, set upon; mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for,
devoured by desire.
aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching.
desirable; desired &c v.; in demand; pleasing &c (giving pleasure)
829; appetizing, appetible†; tantalizing.
Adv. wistfully &c adj.; fain.
Int. would that, would that it were!, O for!, esto perpetual [Lat.]
Phr. the wish being father to the thought; sua cuique voluptas [Lat.];
hoc erat in votis [Lat.], the mouth watering, the fingers itching; aut
Caesar aut nullus [Lat.].
Cassius has a lean and hungry look [Julius Caesar]; hungry as the
grave [Thomson]; I was born to other things [Tennyson]; not what we
wish but what we want [Merrick]; such joy ambition finds [Paradise
Lost]; the sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none [Venus and
Adonis]; ubi mel ibi apes [Lat.].