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All desirous synonyms

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adj desirous

  • wishful — having or showing a wish; desirous; longing.
  • acquisitive — If you describe a person or an organization as acquisitive, you do not approve of them because you think they are too concerned with getting new possessions.
  • ambitious — Someone who is ambitious has a strong desire to be successful, rich, or powerful.
  • amorous — If you describe someone's feelings or actions as amorous, you mean that they involve sexual desire.
  • anxious — If you are anxious to do something or anxious that something should happen, you very much want to do it or very much want it to happen.
  • avid — You use avid to describe someone who is very enthusiastic about something that they do.
  • covetous — A covetous person has a strong desire to possess something, especially something that belongs to another person.
  • craving — an intense desire or longing
  • desiring — to wish or long for; crave; want.
  • eager — keen or ardent in desire or feeling; impatiently longing: I am eager for news about them. He is eager to sing.
  • grasping — greedy; avaricious: a sly, grasping man.
  • greedy — excessively or inordinately desirous of wealth, profit, etc.; avaricious: the greedy owners of the company.
  • hot — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
  • itchy — having or causing an itching sensation.
  • keen — finely sharpened, as an edge; so shaped as to cut or pierce substances readily: a keen razor.
  • longing — strong, persistent desire or craving, especially for something unattainable or distant: filled with longing for home.
  • lustful — full of or motivated by lust, greed, or the like: He was an emperor lustful of power.
  • passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
  • ready — completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use: troops ready for battle; Dinner is ready.
  • stimulated — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • willing — disposed or consenting; inclined: willing to go along.
  • yearning — deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness: a widower's yearning for his wife.
  • prehensile — adapted for seizing, grasping, or taking hold of something: a prehensile tail.
  • turned on — lively and chic; switched-on.

adjective desirous

  • hopeful — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
  • wanting — lacking or absent: a motor with some of the parts wanting.
  • aspiring — If you use aspiring to describe someone who is starting a particular career, you mean that they are trying to become successful in it.
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