Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
ambition | aspiration after success or advancement; (verb) to be ambitious of, desire strongly. |
appetence | strong craving or powerful desire. |
appetency | strong craving or powerful desire. |
appetent | having strong desires. |
appetible | desirable. |
appetition | (Arch.) direction of desire. |
appetitive | having or giving an appetite. |
aspire | to have an earnest desire or ambition. |
aspiring | desiring, aiming at. |
aspiringly | (Adv.) ASPIRING. |
besoin | (Fr.) need, want, desire. |
brame | (Spenser) a fierce longing. |
conation | mental effort towards a goal, desire, purpose. |
conational | relating to conation, mental effort towards a goal. |
conative | relating to purposeful action or desire. |
covet | to desire greatly. |
covetable | that may be coveted. |
coveter | one who covets. |
covetingly | (Adv.) COVETING. |
covetise | (Obs.) covetousness; ardent desire. |
covetous | very desirous; eager to obtain. |
covetously | (Adv.) COVETOUS, eager to obtain. |
crave | to desire greatly. |
craver | one who craves. |
cupidinous | full of desire, amorous. |
cupidity | avarice, greed. |
desiderate | to desire; to feel the want of. |
desideration | the act of desiderating. |
desiderative | implying desire; (noun) something desirable. |
desideratum | (Lat.) something considered necessary or desirable. |
desiderium | longing or yearning. |
desirable | to be desired (noun) something desirable |
desirableness | the state of being desirable. |
desirably | (Adv.) DESIRABLE, to be desired. |
desire | to wish for. |
desireless | free from desire. |
desirer | one who desires. |
desirous | desiring. |
desirously | (Adv.) DESIROUS, with desire. |
desirousness | the state of being desirous. |
egence | the state of needing, or of suffering a natural want. |
egency | the state of needing, or of suffering a natural want. |
envier | one who envies. |
grein | (Scots) to long, yearn. |
hanker | to want, yearn for. |
hankerer | one who hankers. |
hunger | desire for food (verb) to crave |
hungerly | (Shakesp.) hungry, hungrily. |
long | extending for a considerable distance ) LENGER, LONGEST or (obs.) LENGEST, LONGLY; (adv.) for a long time; (verb) to desire strongly |
longing | a strong desire. |
longingly | (Adv.) LONGING, having a strong desire. |
lust | strong desire (verb) to have an intense desire |
mindedness | an inclination to do something. |
moreish | such that one wants more. |
morish | such that one wants more. |
necessitous | needful, in need. |
necessitously | (Adv.) NECESSITOUS, needful, in need. |
needer | one who needs. |
needful | necessary (noun) something that is needful |
needfully | (Adv.) NEEDFUL, necessary. |
nill | (Arch.) not to will; to refuse. |
outwill | to surpass in willing. |
outwish | to surpass in wishing. |
pine | any tree of the north temperate coniferous genus Pinus (verb) to yearn intensely |
prerequire | to require beforehand. |
prevenancy | courteous anticipation of others' wishes. |
requere | (Spenser) to require. |
require | to have need of. |
requirer | one who requires. |
requisite | required (noun) something necessary |
requisitely | (Adv.) REQUISITE. |
undesired | not desired. |
undesiring | not desiring. |
undesirous | not desirous. |
unwanted | not wanted. |
unwill | to annul or reverse by an act of the will. |
unwish | (Shakesp.) to wish not to be. |
unwishful | not wishful. |
velleity | volition at its faintest. |
volition | the act of will. |
volitional | relating to volition. |
volitionally | (Adv.) VOLITIONAL, relating to volition. |
volitionary | relating to volition. |
volitionless | without volition. |
wanderlust | (Ger.) an urge to travel from place to place. |
wanna | (Coll.) want to. |
want | to have a desire for. |
wanter | one who wants. |
will | to decide upon used as an auxiliary followed by a simple infinitive to express futurity, inclination, likelihood, or requirement 2d person WOULD, WOULDEST, or WOULDST. |
willer | one who wills. |
willing | ready to comply. |
willingly | (Adv.) WILLING, ready to comply. |
wish | to feel an impulse toward attainment or possession of something. |
wisher | one who wishes. |
wishful | desirous. |
wishfully | (Adv.) WISHFUL, desirous. |
wishless | without a wish. |
wiss | to wish. |
wistful | yearning. |
wistfulness | the state of being wistful. |
wistly | (Shakesp.) longingly. |
would | the desired, the intended. |
wull | (Dial.) to will. |
yearn | to have a strong or deep desire. |
yearner | one who yearns. |
yearning | a strong or deep desire. |
yearningly | (Adv.) YEARNING. |
yen | a Japanese unit of currency; (verb) to desire or yearn. |