Antonyms for desiderate
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : dih-sid-uh-reyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsɪd əˌreɪt |
Definition of desiderate
- As in want : verb desire
- As in wish : verb desire
- As in covet : verb desire strongly
- As in desire : verb want, long for
- That the oneness requires425 proof is prima facie evidence that it is a value, a desiderate, not an existence.
- Extract from : « Creative Intelligence » by John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
- And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?
- Extract from : « Modern Essays » by John Macy
- We should desiderate a closer approach, and not rest till we had found it.
- Extract from : « The Meaning of Truth » by William James
- We (they observe) need not deny a designer of the world, but we desiderate evidence of his actual workmanship.
- Extract from : « The Philosophy of Natural Theology » by William Jackson
- Some may desiderate longer notices of German theories concerning the origin and character of the Acts.
- Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 » by G. T. Stokes
- Far be it from the present writer to regret or desiderate the adorably candid creature who so soon smirches her whiteness.
- Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 » by George Saintsbury
- It is the authoritative sentence of the Church then on this difficult subject that we desiderate.
- Extract from : « The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels » by John Burgon
- We desiderate such periods of relaxation and repose in Macaulay.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 402, April, 1849 » by Various
Synonyms for desiderate
- ache
- aim
- aspire
- aspire to
- be greedy
- be smitten
- be turned on by
- beg
- begrudge
- choose
- command
- cotton to
- could do with
- covet
- crave
- desiderate
- die over
- elect
- enjoy
- entreat
- envy
- expect
- fall for
- fancy
- feel a need
- give eyeteeth for
- go for
- hanker
- hanker after
- hanker for
- have a passion for
- have a yen for
- have ambition
- have an urge for
- have eye on
- have eyes for
- have hots for
- have the hots for
- hope
- hunger
- hunger for
- incline toward
- invoke
- itch
- itch for
- like
- long
- long for
- look forward to
- lust
- lust after
- make advances to
- need
- order
- partial to
- pine
- please
- pray for
- prefer
- request
- require
- set heart on
- set one's heart on
- sigh for
- solicit
- spoil for
- sweet on
- take a liking to
- take a shine to
- take to
- thirst
- thirst for
- want
- will
- wish
- wish for
- yearn
- yearn for
- yen
- yen for
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