All desiderate synonyms

verb desiderate

• want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
• crave — If you crave something, you want to have it very much.
• covet — If you covet something, you strongly want to have it for yourself.
• wish — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
• require — to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
• prefer — to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
• need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
• please — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
• request — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
• beg — If you beg someone to do something, you ask them very anxiously or eagerly to do it.
• will — Wallace, 1875–1959, U.S. journalist and humorist.
• command — If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
• solicit — to seek for (something) by entreaty, earnest or respectful request, formal application, etc.: He solicited aid from the minister.
• invoke — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
• order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
• hope — Anthony, pen name of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins.
• choose — If you choose someone or something from several people or things that are available, you decide which person or thing you want to have.
• fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
• want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
• begrudge — If you do not begrudge someone something, you do not feel angry, upset, or jealous that they have got it.
• like — in like manner with; similarly to; in the manner characteristic of: He works like a beaver.
• aim — If you aim for something or aim to do something, you plan or hope to achieve it.
• pine — Archaic. painful longing.
• thirst — a sensation of dryness in the mouth and throat caused by need of liquid.
• hunger — a compelling need or desire for food.
• hanker — to have a restless or incessant longing (often followed by after, for, or an infinitive).
• lust — intense sexual desire or appetite.
• yearn — to have an earnest or strong desire; long: to yearn for a quiet vacation.
• long — having considerable linear extent in space: a long distance; a long handle.
• aspire — If you aspire to something such as an important job, you have a strong desire to achieve it.
• ache — If you ache or a part of your body aches, you feel a steady, fairly strong pain.
• itch — to have or feel a peculiar tingling or uneasy irritation of the skin that causes a desire to scratch the part affected: My nose itches.
• yen — an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Japan, equal to 100 sen or 1000 rin. Symbol: ¥; Abbreviation: Y.
• look forward to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
• set one's heart on — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
• desire — A desire is a strong wish to do or have something.
• spoil for — If you are spoiling for a fight, you are very eager for it to happen.
• fall for — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
• go for — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• cotton to — If you cotton to someone or something, you start to like them.
• have eyes for — to be interested in
• take a shine to — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
• take to — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.