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Desire   /dɪzˈaɪər/   Listen
Desire

noun
1.
The feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state.
2.
An inclination to want things.
3.
Something that is desired.
verb
(past & past part. desired; pres. part. desiring)
1.
Feel or have a desire for; want strongly.  Synonym: want.  "I want my own room"
2.
Expect and wish.  Synonyms: hope, trust.  "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise"
3.
Express a desire for.



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"Desire" Quotes from Famous Books



... with Evil haunting near, Wrath on the wind, nor jarring of the clear Wing's music as thou fliest! There is no shaft that burneth, not in fire, Not in wild stars, far off and flinging fear, As in thine hands the shaft of All Desire, Eros, ...
— Hippolytus/The Bacchae • Euripides
 
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... and naturally to the old town that had given him birth; and he felt a twinge of something like remorse at the reflection that never once since leaving it had he set foot within its borders. For years he had been too busy. His wife had never manifested any desire to visit the South, nor was her temperament one to evoke or sympathise with sentimental reminiscence. He had married, rather late in life, a New York woman, much younger than himself; and while he had admired her beauty and they had lived very pleasantly ...
— The Colonel's Dream • Charles W. Chesnutt
 
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... very judiciously made, and to women who had, for more than six months, been deprived of the pleasure of shopping, the display was irresistible. In their desire to examine the goods, the ladies speedily lifted their veils, and, seating themselves on cushions they had brought in with them, chattered unrestrainedly; examining the quality of the silks which Surajah and Dick, squatting behind their wares, handed for their inspection; comparing ...
— The Tiger of Mysore - A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib • G. A. Henty
 
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... home. I see him so distinctly standing near the pier table, talking to Mr. Sparks, whom he had met only that morning, and who, three weeks after, had Harry's blood upon his hands. He is a murderer now, without aim or object in life, as before; with only one desire—to die—and death still flees from him, and he Dares not rid ...
— A Confederate Girl's Diary • Sarah Morgan Dawson
 
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... "Angry! How could you think so? I am never angry with you. But what do you desire to hear about? Whither I am going, and when? Do you, then, wish—I mean, advise ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
 
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