| Main Entry: | wish for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire |
Synonyms: |
covet, crave, fancy, hanker for, hunger for, long for, lust after, thirst after, want, yearn for |
| Main Entry: | choose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pick, select |
Synonyms: |
accept, adopt, appoint, call for, cast, co-opt, commit oneself, crave, cull, decide on, designate, desire, determine, discriminate between, draw lots, elect, embrace, espouse, excerpt, extract, fancy, favor, feel disposed to, finger, fix on, glean, judge, love, make choice, make decision, make up one's mind, name, opt for, predestine, prefer, see fit, separate, set aside, settle upon, sift out, single out, slot, sort, tab, tag, take, take up, tap, want, weigh, will, winnow, wish, wish for |
| Notes: | choose means to pick out or select from a number of alternatives, while chose is the past tense of choose |
| Main Entry: | covet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire strongly |
Synonyms: |
aspire to, begrudge, choose, crave, desiderate, envy, fancy, hanker for, have eye on, have hots for, itch for, long for, lust after, spoil for, thirst for, want, wish for, yearn for, yen for |
Antonyms: |
abjure, be generous, give, not want |
| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | want, long for |
Synonyms: |
aim, aspire to, be smitten, be turned on by, choose, cotton to, covet, crave, desiderate, die over, enjoy, fall for, fancy, give eyeteeth for, go for, hanker after, have eyes for, have the hots for, hunger for, like, lust after, make advances to, partial to, pine, set heart on, spoil for, sweet on, take a liking to, take a shine to, take to, thirst, wish for, yearn for |
Antonyms: |
not want |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | love, desire |
Synonyms: |
approve, be attracted to, be captivated by, be enamored of, be in love with, care for, crave, crazy about, desire, dream of, endorse, fall for, favor, like, long for, lust after, mad for, prefer, relish, sanction, set one's heart on, take a liking to, take to, wild for, wish for, yearn for |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate |
| Main Entry: | favorite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | preferred |
Synonyms: |
admired, adored, beloved, best-loved, cherished, choice, darling, dear, dearest, desired, especial, esteemed, favored, intimate, liked, main, number one, personal, pet*, pleasant, popular, precious, prized, revered, sweetheart*, treasured, wished-for |
Antonyms: |
disliked, hated, loathed |
| Main Entry: | yearn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire strongly |
Synonyms: |
ache, be desirous of, be eager for, be passionate, chafe, covet, crave, dream, hanker, have a crush on, have a yen for, hunger, itch, languish, long, lust, pine, set one's heart on, thirst, want, wish for |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate |
| Main Entry: | missed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | longed for |
Synonyms: |
craved, desired, needed, wanted, wished for, yearned for |
Antonyms: |
disliked, hated, unwanted |
| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
Related
Adjectives: |
agog, all agog, ambitious, anadipsic, anxious, appetent, appetizable, appetizing, ardent, aspiring, at a loss for, athirst, avid, belly, bent upon, breathless, bulimic, burning, concubitant, covetous, craving, curious, desirable, desired, desiring, desirous, devoured by desire, drouthy, dry, dying for, eager, enviable, envious, esurient, exacting, exoptable, extortionate, fain, famished, fervent, gair, grasping, greedy, greedy as a hog, hungry, hungry as a churchmouse, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a hunter, impatient, in demand, inclined, ingordigious, insatiable, intent on, intent upon, keen, lickerish, mad after, meatwhole, open, orectic, overeager, parched with thirst, partial to, peckish, phagomanic, pinched with hunger, pleasing, quenchless, rabid, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, ravenous as a wolf, salacious, sarcophilous, sedulous, set on, set upon, sharp, sitient, sky, sordid, tantalizing, thirsty, tibialoconcupiscent, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslaked, vaulting, venerean, voracious, wishful, wistful, with an empty stomach, yiver
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| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
Related
Adjectives: |
fancy, air-built, air-drawn, bucolic, chimerical, chthonic, commentitious, creative, demiurgic, enthusiastic, excogitous, extravagant, fabulous, fairy, fairylike, fanatic, fanciful, fantastical, fertile, fictive, flighty, haptic, high-flown, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, imagined, imagining, implicit, in the clouds, inventive, legendary, mythic, mythological, notional, oneiric, oneirotic, original, pastoral, pretend, quixotic, romantic, supermundane, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visile, visionary, whimsical
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