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desiring
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | longing |
| Synonyms: | desiring, infatuated, languishing, lovelorn, pining, yearning |
| Main Entry: | tempted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desirous |
| Synonyms: | allured, bent on, charmed, desiring, enticed, inclined, seduced |
| Antonyms: | averse to, disinclined, indifferent, undesiring, unwilling |
| Main Entry: | wishing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hoping |
| Synonyms: | desiring, longing, pining, wanting, yearning |
| Main Entry: | athirst |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eager |
| Synonyms: | agog, anxious, ardent, avid, bursting, champing at the bit, desiring, desirous, excited, hungry, impatient, keen, longing, raring, ready and willing, thirsting, thirsty, yearning |
| Main Entry: | thirsting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eager |
| Synonyms: | acquisitive, agog, ambitious, antsy, appetent, ardent, athirst, avid, breathless, bursting, champing at the bit, covetous, craving, desiring, desirous, dying to, earnest, fervent, fervid, greedy, gung ho, hankering*, heated, hot to trot, hot*, hungry*, impatient, intent, keen, longing, pining, rarin' to go, ready and willing, restive, restless, self-starting, solicitous, thirsty, vehement, voracious, warmblooded, wild, wishful, yearning, zealous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aspire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | aim, hope |
| Synonyms: | be ambitious, be eager, crave, desire, dream, hanker, long, pursue, seek, strive, struggle, try, want, wish, yearn |
| Main Entry: | beg |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | request |
| Synonyms: | abjure, advocate, apply to, ask, beseech, besiege, call to, canvass, conjure, crave, desire, entreat, impetrate, implore, importune, invoke, nag, obsecrate, obtest, petition, plead, pray, press, requisition, solicit, sue, supplicate, urge, woo, worry |
| Antonyms: | answer |
| Main Entry: | bid |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ask for; command |
| Synonyms: | call, charge, demand, desire, direct, enjoin, instruct, invite, make a pass at, make a pitch, make a play for, order, proposition, request, require, solicit, summon, tell, warn |
| Main Entry: | burn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be excited about; yearn for |
| Synonyms: | be angry, be aroused, be inflamed, be passionate, be stirred up, blaze, boil, breathe fire, bristle, desire, eat up, fume, lust, rage, seethe, simmer, smoulder, tingle, yearn |
| Antonyms: | stifle, subdue |
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