desirousness

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noun

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Recent Examples of desirous
Adjective
The spacey Pisces Moon squares desirous Venus at 10:43 am EDT, luring us toward entertaining distractions. Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 30 May 2024 With the desirous Moon in your 9th House of Adventure, you may be tempted to go somewhere outside your usual stomping grounds. Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024 Hybrid annual monkey flowers, although somewhat thirsty and, come summer, desirous of partial shade, are stunningly colorful, appearing in violet, orange, yellow, pink, and red. Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 20 Apr. 2024 But that desirous result eludes screenwriters Coen and Tricia Cooke. Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for desirous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for desirous
Adjective
  • Key Background Leo was born in Chicago as Robert Francis Prevost, and his election as pontiff drew excited responses from Vance and President Donald Trump, who both wished him success in his role leading the Catholic Church.
    Molly Bohannon, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • The nerves turned into excited butterflies as my wave kicked off.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Such scams exploit investor enthusiasm and poor regulation to inflate prices before insiders sell off their holdings.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
  • This campaign has energized consumption enthusiasm among younger demographics.
    Footwear News, Footwear News, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • Like Sánchez, many Chicago-area Catholics are making the nearly 4,000-mile pilgrimage to the Vatican to witness the inauguration Mass and other papal events this month, eager to celebrate one of their own rising to become Catholicism’s spiritual leader.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2025
  • Sometimes the person accepting the soft promotion is eager to move up the ladder.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Still, prosecutors have not outlined his potential motive, and a sweeping gag order has kept the parties from speaking publicly, making each pretrial hearing an opportunity to quench the public’s thirst to learn more details.
    Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 15 May 2025
  • One of the main culprits is the extraction of groundwater to quench the thirst of growing populations and commerce.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 8 May 2025
Adjective
  • Plus, parents’ avid use of social media means that word spreads quickly, giving the approach a leg up compared with targeting a single demographic that isn’t as enthusiastic online.
    Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 21 May 2025
  • Shah, an avid wine collector, wanted to open his own wine bar.
    Andy Wang, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Still, excitement is high for this year's Preakness Stakes as nine horses are set to hit the track.
    Matt Richardson, CBS News, 17 May 2025
  • In a break from his typically stoic facade, that excitement was evident from Kershaw all week.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • In the novel’s historical re-creation, is there an anxious note to Americans now losing themselves in accommodation?
    David Denby, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
  • An inaccurate diagnosis might lead to unnecessary or risky treatment, and a false positive can cause stress by requiring additional tests and anxious waits for results.
    Max Votek, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The 2023 update has brought some clarity and projects like Artemis which specifically aim to develop autonomous weapons suggest there is now an appetite to push forward in this area.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • Work up an appetite with a bike ride to the Hemingway Home and Museum, at 907 Whitehead St.; or Truman’s Little White House, at 111 Front St.; or to Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park off the harbor for a tour and a lounge on the beach.
    Mark Gauert, Sun Sentinel, 16 May 2025

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“Desirous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desirous. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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