desire

Meanings

Verb

• To want; to wish for earnestly.
• To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
• To want emotionally or sexually.
• To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
• To require; to demand; to claim.
• To miss; to regret.

Noun

• Someone or something wished for.
• Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
• The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something.
• Motivation.

Related

Similar words

• wanna, want-to

Origin

• From Middle English desire and desiren, from Old French desirer, desirrer, from Latin dēsīderō, apparently from de- + sidus (in the phrase de sidere, "from the stars") in connection with astrological hopes. Compare consider. Compare also desiderate.