English words for 'eagerly desirous'
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- To pant with eagerness or excitement; to show vehement desire.
- (intransitive) To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.
- (intransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion; to respire with heaving of the breast; to pant.
- (transitive) To speak in a breathless manner.
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
intj
noun
adv
adv
adj
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- (chess) Tactical; risky.
- (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
- Forming a small or tight angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Strongly distinguishing or differentiating; acute.
- (music) Higher in pitch than required.
- Having a strong acrid or acidic taste.
- Observant; alert; acute.
- Quick and alert.
- (colloquial) Stylish, smart or attractive.
- (colloquial) Intelligent.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd, verging on dishonest.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- (music) Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious; stern or harsh.
- Sudden, abrupt, intense, rapid.
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- dangerously steep
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- quick and forceful
- harsh
- ending in a sharp point
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
noun
- (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played one chromatic semitone higher.
- (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- (psychiatry, healthcare) A sharp object; any item pointed enough to injure human skin.
- (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
- Alternative form of sharpie (“type of fishing boat”).
- (music) A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
- a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a cherished desire
- (countable) An object of an ardent desire.
- (uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
- A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
- (uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
- a strong drive for success
adj
verb
noun
adj
- Excessively eager to please; obsequious.
- (grammar) Not belonging to the original root.
- (grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.
- Of or pertaining to a slave.
- Slavish or submissive.
- relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants
- submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
noun
noun
- A constant teasing desire or want.
- a strong restless desire
- A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch said area.
- a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation
- an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch
verb
- (intransitive) To have a constant, teasing urge; to feel strongly motivated; to want or desire something.
- (transitive, colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.
- (intransitive, stative) To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
- (transitive) To cause to feel an itch.
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- have a strong desire or urge to do something
- have or perceive an itch
- cause to perceive an itch
verb
- (intransitive) To be very eager (for something).
- (transitive) To prematurely reveal major events or the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing ahead of time as a spoiler.
- (transitive) To render (a ballot) invalid by deliberately defacing.
- (aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
- (transitive) To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable.
- (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
- (intransitive, of food or drink) To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay.
- have a strong desire or urge to do something
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- become unfit for consumption or use
- treat with excessive indulgence
- alter from the original
- destroy and strip of its possession
- make imperfect
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
noun
- (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
- (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
- (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
- the act of stripping and taking by force
- the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
noun
- (figurative) Eager longing.
- (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
- A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
- (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.
- (attributive) Of or relating to pants.
- the noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine)
- (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately
- a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open
verb
- (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
- (ambitransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
- (intransitive) To heave, as the breast.
- (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
- (intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
- (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- utter while panting, as if out of breath
adj
- (figurative) Having a constant, teasing desire (for something, to do something); impatiently eager.
- Causing an itching sensation.
- Feeling an itching sensation; feeling a need to be scratched. (of a person, animal or body part)
- Characterized by itching. (of a condition)
- (figurative) Causing a constant, teasing desire for something.
- (figurative) In a state of agitation; easily alarmed.
- causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch
- nervous and unable to relax
phrase
verb
- be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something
- let saliva drivel from the mouth
- (ambitransitive) To secrete any substance in a similar way.
- To talk nonsense; drivel.
- (intransitive, informal, figurative) To react to something with uncontrollable desire.
- (ambitransitive) To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.
noun
noun
verb
- push for something
- force or impel in an indicated direction
- spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
- (transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
- (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
- (transitive) To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
- (transitive) To press onward or forward.
- (transitive) To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
- (transitive) To press hard upon; to follow closely.
- (transitive) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
verb
noun
- an inclination to want things
- (uncountable) Motivation.
- (countable) Someone or something wished for.
- (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
- (uncountable) The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something.
- the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
- something that is desired
noun
- a sudden desire
- an instinctive motive
- the act of applying force suddenly
- (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
- the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber
- an impelling force or strength
- A wish or urge, particularly a sudden one prompting action.
- (physics) The integral of force over time.
- A thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a cherished desire
- a will to succeed
- the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
- a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath
- (medicine) The withdrawal of fluid, tissue, or other substance, usually through a hollow needle from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
- The action of aspirating.
- The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).
- (Gaelic, linguistics) The process of lenition involving writing a digraph with h, especially at the beginning of a word.
- (French, linguistics) The silent breaking h beginning some French words, largely of Germanic origin.
- (phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.
noun
- a cherished desire
- a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
- imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
- a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
- someone or something wonderful
- a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality
- (countable, figurative) A hope or wish.
- A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
- (countable) Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
verb
- experience while sleeping
- have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
- (intransitive) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
- (transitive) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
- (intransitive) To consider the possibility (of).
- (intransitive) To daydream.
- (intransitive) To hope, to wish.
adj
noun
noun
- A constant teasing desire or want.
- a strong restless desire
- A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch said area.
- a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation
- an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch
verb
- (intransitive) To have a constant, teasing urge; to feel strongly motivated; to want or desire something.
- (transitive, colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.
- (intransitive, stative) To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
- (transitive) To cause to feel an itch.
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- have a strong desire or urge to do something
- have or perceive an itch
- cause to perceive an itch
noun
- (figurative) Eager longing.
- (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
- A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
- (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.
- (attributive) Of or relating to pants.
- the noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine)
- (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately
- a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open
verb
- (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
- (ambitransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
- (intransitive) To heave, as the breast.
- (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
- (intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
- (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- utter while panting, as if out of breath
noun
verb
- push for something
- force or impel in an indicated direction
- spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
- (transitive) To provoke; to exasperate.
- (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
- (transitive) To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.
- (transitive) To press onward or forward.
- (transitive) To present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.
- (transitive) To press hard upon; to follow closely.
- (transitive) To be pressing in argument; to insist; to persist.
verb
noun
- an inclination to want things
- (uncountable) Motivation.
- (countable) Someone or something wished for.
- (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
- (uncountable) The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something.
- the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
- something that is desired
noun
- a sudden desire
- an instinctive motive
- the act of applying force suddenly
- (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)
- the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber
- an impelling force or strength
- A wish or urge, particularly a sudden one prompting action.
- (physics) The integral of force over time.
- A thrust; a push; a sudden force that impels.
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
verb
noun
- a cherished desire
- (countable) An object of an ardent desire.
- (uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
- A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
- (uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
- a strong drive for success
noun
- a cherished desire
- a will to succeed
- the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
- a manner of articulation involving an audible release of breath
- (medicine) The withdrawal of fluid, tissue, or other substance, usually through a hollow needle from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
- The action of aspirating.
- The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).
- (Gaelic, linguistics) The process of lenition involving writing a digraph with h, especially at the beginning of a word.
- (French, linguistics) The silent breaking h beginning some French words, largely of Germanic origin.
- (phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.
noun
- a cherished desire
- a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe)
- imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake
- a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep
- someone or something wonderful
- a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality
- (countable, figurative) A hope or wish.
- A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
- (countable) Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
verb
- experience while sleeping
- have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
- (intransitive) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
- (transitive) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
- (intransitive) To consider the possibility (of).
- (intransitive) To daydream.
- (intransitive) To hope, to wish.
adj
verb
- To pant with eagerness or excitement; to show vehement desire.
- (intransitive) To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.
- (intransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion; to respire with heaving of the breast; to pant.
- (transitive) To speak in a breathless manner.
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
intj
noun
verb
noun
- a cherished desire
- (countable) An object of an ardent desire.
- (uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
- A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
- (uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
- a strong drive for success
verb
- (intransitive) To be very eager (for something).
- (transitive) To prematurely reveal major events or the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing ahead of time as a spoiler.
- (transitive) To render (a ballot) invalid by deliberately defacing.
- (aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
- (transitive) To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable.
- (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
- (intransitive, of food or drink) To go bad; to become sour or rancid; to decay.
- have a strong desire or urge to do something
- make a mess of, destroy or ruin
- become unfit for consumption or use
- treat with excessive indulgence
- alter from the original
- destroy and strip of its possession
- make imperfect
- hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
noun
- (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
- (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
- (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
- the act of stripping and taking by force
- the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it
adj
verb
noun
verb
- be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something
- let saliva drivel from the mouth
- (ambitransitive) To secrete any substance in a similar way.
- To talk nonsense; drivel.
- (intransitive, informal, figurative) To react to something with uncontrollable desire.
- (ambitransitive) To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.
noun
verb
noun
- an inclination to want things
- (uncountable) Motivation.
- (countable) Someone or something wished for.
- (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
- (uncountable) The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something.
- the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
- something that is desired
noun
- (figurative) Eager longing.
- (fashion) A pair of pants (trousers or underpants).
- A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
- (Scotland and northeast England) Any public drinking fountain.
- (attributive) Of or relating to pants.
- the noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine)
- (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately
- a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open
verb
- (intransitive) To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
- (ambitransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
- (intransitive) To heave, as the breast.
- (intransitive) Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
- (intransitive) To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
- (intransitive) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- utter while panting, as if out of breath
adv
adv
adj
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- (chess) Tactical; risky.
- (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
- Forming a small or tight angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Strongly distinguishing or differentiating; acute.
- (music) Higher in pitch than required.
- Having a strong acrid or acidic taste.
- Observant; alert; acute.
- Quick and alert.
- (colloquial) Stylish, smart or attractive.
- (colloquial) Intelligent.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd, verging on dishonest.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- (music) Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious; stern or harsh.
- Sudden, abrupt, intense, rapid.
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- dangerously steep
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- quick and forceful
- harsh
- ending in a sharp point
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
noun
- (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played one chromatic semitone higher.
- (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- (psychiatry, healthcare) A sharp object; any item pointed enough to injure human skin.
- (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
- Alternative form of sharpie (“type of fishing boat”).
- (music) A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
- a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
verb
adj
adj
noun
verb
adj
verb
noun
adj
- Excessively eager to please; obsequious.
- (grammar) Not belonging to the original root.
- (grammar) Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.
- Of or pertaining to a slave.
- Slavish or submissive.
- relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants
- submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior
noun
adv
adj
- Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
- (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
- (chess) Tactical; risky.
- (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
- Forming a small or tight angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
- Strongly distinguishing or differentiating; acute.
- (music) Higher in pitch than required.
- Having a strong acrid or acidic taste.
- Observant; alert; acute.
- Quick and alert.
- (colloquial) Stylish, smart or attractive.
- (colloquial) Intelligent.
- Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
- Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
- (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd, verging on dishonest.
- Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
- Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
- Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
- (music) Raised by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ♯ after the name of the note).
- Offensive, critical, or acrimonious; stern or harsh.
- Sudden, abrupt, intense, rapid.
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- dangerously steep
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- quick and forceful
- harsh
- ending in a sharp point
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
noun
- (music) The symbol ♯, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played one chromatic semitone higher.
- (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
- (psychiatry, healthcare) A sharp object; any item pointed enough to injure human skin.
- (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
- Alternative form of sharpie (“type of fishing boat”).
- (music) A note that is played one chromatic semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ♯.
- (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
- (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
- A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
- Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
- A dishonest person; a cheater.
- A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).
- a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
- a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
verb
adj
- (figurative) Having a constant, teasing desire (for something, to do something); impatiently eager.
- Causing an itching sensation.
- Feeling an itching sensation; feeling a need to be scratched. (of a person, animal or body part)
- Characterized by itching. (of a condition)
- (figurative) Causing a constant, teasing desire for something.
- (figurative) In a state of agitation; easily alarmed.
- causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch
- nervous and unable to relax