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goodly, excellent, choice, fine, superior, superb, Colloq Brit
plummy: The company has produced some very desirable motor
cars. 4 profitable, worthwhile, beneficial, advantageous,
valuable, worthy, estimable, commendable, admirable: Lady
Chelm's plan possesses many desirable attributes.
desire v. 1 crave, want, fancy, covet, wish for, hope for, long or
yearn for, pine or sigh for, hanker after, have an eye or taste
for, hunger or thirst for or after, die for, have one's heart
set on, give one's eye-teeth for, Colloq have a yen for, Slang
US have the hots for: I desire nothing but your happiness. He
desired her more than anything else in the world. 2 ask for,
request, order, demand, solicit, importune, summon, require: Do
you desire anything further, sir?
--n. 3 longing, craving, yearning, hankering, hunger, thirst,
appetite; passion, lust, libido, lustfulness, concupiscence,
lecherousness, lechery, lasciviousness, salaciousness,
prurience, Slang hot pants, US the hots; Colloq yen: He felt
desire rising in him like a fever. 4 wish, request, urge,
requirement, order, requisition, demand, desideratum; appeal,
entreaty, petition: He fulfils her every desire.
desirous adj. wishful, desiring, longing, yearning, hopeful, hoping: I
was desirous to learn more about his whereabouts.
desolate adj. 1 solitary, lonely, isolated, deserted, forlorn, forsaken,
friendless, alone, abandoned, neglected; desert, uninhabited,
empty, unfrequented, bare, barren, bleak, remote: He felt
desolate after his wife's death. Tristan da Cunha is a group of
four desolate islands in the Atlantic. 2 laid waste, ruined,
devastated, ravaged, destroyed: The explosion left the
surrounding countryside desolate. 3 dreary, dismal, wretched,
joyless, cheerless, comfortless, miserable, unhappy, down,
disconsolate, sad, melancholy, sorrowful, forlorn, mournful,
woebegone, gloomy, broken-hearted, heavy-hearted, inconsolable,
dejected, downcast, downhearted, dispirited, low-spirited,
depressed, melancholy, spiritless, despondent, dismal,
distressed, discouraged, hopeless: He has brought some
happiness into her desolate existence.
--v. 4 depopulate: The country was desolated by famine. 5
destroy, devastate, ruin, lay waste, despoil, ravage, demolish,