desire, wish, fancy, fantasy; want, need, exigency., mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection; propensity; willingness; liking, love, fondness, relish., longing, hankering, inkling; solicitude, anxiety; yearning, coveting; aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition; eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety; impetuosity, [more]., appetite, appetition, appetence, appetency; sharp appetite, keenness, hunger, stomach, twist; thirst, thirstiness; drouth, mouthwatering; itch, itching; prurience, cacoethes, 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., avidity; greed, greediness; covetousness, ravenousness; grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity; voracity (gluttony)., passion, rage, furore, mania, manie; inextinguishable desire; dipsomania, kleptomania., [Person desiring] lover, amateur, votary, devotee, aspirant, solicitant, candidate; cormorant., [Object of desire] desideratum; want (requirement); "a consummation devoutly to be wished"; attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol; whim, whimsey; maggot; hobby, hobby-horse., Fortunatus's cap; wishing cap, wishing stone, wishing well., care for, affect, like, list; take to, cling to, take a fancy to; fancy; prefer (choose)., have an eye, have a mind to; find it in one's heart (be willing) [more]; 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.

desire; wish, wish for; be desirous have a longing; hope., be hungry; 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., gratify desire (give pleasure).

desirous; desiring; inclined (willing); partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous. craving, hungry, sharpset, 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., greedy, greedy as a hog; overeager, voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, covetous, rapacious, grasping, extortionate, exacting, sordid, alieni appetens; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous., unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked.

wistfully; fain.