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| Main Entry: | wish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
| Synonyms: | ambition, aspiration, choice, disposition, hankering, hope, hunger, inclination, intention, invocation, itch, liking, longing, pleasure, prayer, preference, request, thirst, urge, want, whim, will, yearning, yen |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | wish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire |
| Synonyms: | aspire, beg, choose, command, covet, crave, desiderate, elect, entreat, envy, expect, fancy, hanker*, hope, hunger, invoke, itch, like, long, look forward to, need, order, please, pray for, prefer, request, set one's heart on, sigh for, solicit, spoil for, thirst, want, will, yearn, yen |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aim |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goal |
| Synonyms: | ambition, aspiration, course, design, desire, direction, end, intent, intention, mark, object, objective, plan, purpose, scheme, target, wish, desideratum, where one is heading |
| Antonyms: | avoidance, neglect, thoughtlessness, aimlessness, purposelessness |
| Main Entry: | aim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | point or direct at a goal |
| Synonyms: | address, angle, aspire, attempt, cast, concentrate, contemplate, covet, design, direct, endeavor, essay, fix, focus, intend, level, mean, plan, propose, purpose, set one's sights on, sight, slant, steer, strive, target, train, try, want, wish, zero in on, zoom in |
| Main Entry: | ambition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something desired |
| Synonyms: | aim, aspiration, desire, dream, end, enterprise, goal, hope, intent, mark, objective, purpose, target, wish |
| Main Entry: | aspiration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goal, hope |
| Synonyms: | aim, ambition, craving, desire, direction, dream, eagerness, endeavor, hankering, inclination, longing, object, objective, passion, pursuit, push, right stuff*, urge, vocation, wish, work, yearning, ambitiousness, fire in the belly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aspire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | aim, hope |
| Synonyms: | crave, desire, dream, hanker, long, pursue, seek, strive, struggle, try, want, wish, yearn, be ambitious, be eager |
| Main Entry: | behest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | order; personal decree |
| Synonyms: | bidding, charge, command, commandment, demand, dictate, direction, injunction, instruction, mandate, order, precept, request, wish, word, expressed desire, prompting, solicitation |
| Notes: | behest is a stronger term than request |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | daydream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fantasy thought of when awake |
| Synonyms: | castle in the air*, conceiving, dream, fancy, fancying, figment of imagination, fond hope, fool's paradise, head trip, imagination, imagining, in a zone, mind trip, musing, phantasm, phantasy, pie in the sky*, pipe dream, reverie, stargazing, trip*, vision, wish, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | reality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want, longing |
| Synonyms: | admiration, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch*, lasciviousness, lechery, libido, liking, love, lust, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, rapture, relish, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning, rapaciousness, ravenousness, salacity |
| Antonyms: | aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hate, hatred, repulsion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | request |
| Synonyms: | appeal, entreaty, hope, petition, supplication, want, wish, importunity, solicitation |
| Antonyms: | answer, antagonism, reply |
| Main Entry: | dream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goal |
| Synonyms: | ambition, aspiration, design, desire, flight of fancy*, hope, notion, pipe dream*, wish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | free will |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | free choice |
| Synonyms: | assent, choice, conation, consent, desire, determination, discretion, free choice, free decision, freedom, inclination, intention, mind, one's discretion, one's own choice, one's own will, option, own say so, own sweet way, person's full intent and purpose, pleasure, power, say so, velleity, volition, voluntary decision, willingness, wish |
| Antonyms: | responsibility |
| Main Entry: | hanker after/hanker for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | desire strongly |
| Synonyms: | ache, covet, crave, hunger, itch, long, lust, pine, sigh, thirst, want, wish, yearn, yen, partial to |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate |
| Main Entry: | hankering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong desire |
| Synonyms: | ache, craving, hunger, itch*, longing, thirst, urge, want, weakness, wish, yearning, yen, druthers, fire in belly, munchies, pining |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | longing; dream |
| Synonyms: | Utopia, achievement, ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption, belief, bright side, buoyancy, castles in air, concern, confidence, daydream, dependence, desire, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's paradise, fortune, gain, goal, greedy glutton, hopefulness, light at end of tunnel, optimism, pipe dream*, promise, promised land*, prospect, reliance, reverie, reward, rosiness, sanguineness, security, stock, thing with feathers, wish |
| Antonyms: | despair, disbelief, discouragement, hopelessness, pessimism |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | long for, dream about |
| Synonyms: | anticipate, aspire, assume, await, believe, cherish, contemplate, count on, desire, expect, foresee, hold, pray, presume, rely, suppose, surmise, suspect, sweat*, trust, wish, be sure of, deem likely, depend on, feel confident, hang in, have faith, keep fingers crossed, knock on wood, look at sunny side, look forward to, promise oneself, sweat it, sweat it out, take heart, think to, watch for |
| Antonyms: | despair, disbelieve, fear |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set, dictate |
| Synonyms: | appoint, burden, charge, command, compel, constrain, decree, demand, encroach, enforce, enjoin, establish, exact, fix, foist, force, horn in, inflict, infringe, institute, introduce, intrude, lay, levy, oblige, obtrude, ordain, order, place, prescribe, presume, promulgate, put, require, saddle*, trespass, visit, wish, wreak, wreck, force upon, lade, lay down, lay down the law, move in on, put foot down, read riot act, take advantage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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