Entry Word: desire

Function: noun

Meaning: a strong wish for something <a desire for adventure and excitement prompted him to travel to Africa>

Synonyms appetite, craving, drive, hankering, hunger, itch, longing, lust, passion, pining, thirst, urge, yearning, yen

Related Words compulsion, impulse, urge, will, zeal; liking, love, taste; eagerness, impatience; wish, want; necessity, need, requirement; avarice, cupidity, greed, rapacity

Near Antonyms abhorrence, aversion, disfavor, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred, repugnance, repulsion; apathy, indifference, unconcern