Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to desire
Participle: desired
Gerund: desiring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | desire |
| you | desire |
| he;she;it | desires |
| we | desire |
| you | desire |
| they | desire |
Perfect
| I | have desired |
| you | have desired |
| he;she;it | has desired |
| we | have desired |
| you | have desired |
| they | have desired |
Past
| I | desired |
| you | desired |
| he;she;it | desired |
| we | desired |
| you | desired |
| they | desired |
Pluperfect
| I | had desired |
| you | had desired |
| he;she;it | had desired |
| we | had desired |
| you | had desired |
| they | had desired |
Future
| I | will desire |
| you | will desire |
| he;she;it | will desire |
| we | will desire |
| you | will desire |
| they | will desire |
Future Perfect
| I | will have desired |
| you | will have desired |
| he;she;it | will have desired |
| we | will have desired |
| you | will have desired |
| they | will have desired |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | desire |
| you | desire |
| he;she;it | desire |
| we | desire |
| you | desire |
| they | desire |
Perfect
| I | have desired |
| you | have desired |
| he;she;it | have desired |
| we | have desired |
| you | have desired |
| they | have desired |
Imperfect
| I | desired |
| you | desired |
| he;she;it | desired |
| we | desired |
| you | desired |
| they | desired |
Pluperfect
| I | had desired |
| you | had desired |
| he;she;it | had desired |
| we | had desired |
| you | had desired |
| they | had desired |
Conditional
Present
| I | would desire |
| you | would desire |
| he;she;it | would desire |
| we | would desire |
| you | would desire |
| they | would desire |
Perfect
| I | would have desired |
| you | would have desired |
| he;she;it | would have desired |
| we | would have desired |
| you | would have desired |
| they | would have desired |
Imperative
| you | desire |
| we | Let's desire |
| you | desire |
Verbs conjugated like 'desire'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'desire'
dehire,
desyre,
dewire,
bemire,
de-ice,
deair,
decide,
decore,
defile,
define,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English desir, desire (noun) and desiren (verb), from Old French desirer, desirrer, from Latin dēsīderō (“to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”), apparently from de- + sidus (in the phrase de sidere, "from the stars") in connection with astrological hopes. Compare consider and desiderate. The verb, along with Old Norse derived want (verb), has mostly replaced native will in modern English. See: Old French '
desirer', Latin '
dēsīderō'.
Verbs referencing "desire"
Ido dezirar, Esperanto
deziri.
Sample Sentences
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[...] pleasure to me to observe the almost imperceptible, but not less certain effect, wrought by this institution among the small community of Boston; and to note at every turn the humanising tastes and desires it has engendered; the affectionate friendships to which it has given rise; the amount of vanity and prejudice it has dispelled. The golden calf they worship at Boston is a pigmy compared with the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] marvellous stories in this respect; but not believing them, was not disappointed. Blue ladies there are, in Boston; but like philosophers of that colour and sex in most other latitudes, they rather desire to be thought superior than to be so. Evangelical ladies there are, likewise, whose attachment to the forms of religion, and horror of theatrical entertainments, are most exemplary. Ladies who [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] his own seeking; they requested him to take notice that the officer in attendance had orders to release him at any hour of the day or night, when he might knock upon his door for that purpose; but desired him to understand, that once going out, he would not be admitted any more. These conditions agreed upon, and he still remaining in the same mind, he was conducted to the prison, and shut up in one [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Well, I didn't look, of course, ” said the stranger with a careless yawn. Then walking up to the landlord, he desired him to furnish him with a private apartment, as he had some writing to do immediately.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] rose up and walked off. When everybody had done with everything, the fragments were cleared away: and one of the waiters appearing anew in the character of a barber, shaved such of the company as desired to be shaved; while the remainder looked on, or yawned over their newspapers. Dinner was breakfast again, without the tea and coffee; and supper and breakfast were identical.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] and fair to see. The little woman had been passing a long time with her sick mother in New York, and had left her home in St. Louis, in that condition in which ladies who truly love their lords desire to be. The baby was born in her mother 's house; and she had not seen her husband (to whom she was now returning ), for twelve months: having left him a month or two after their marriage.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ The Bible was my _mother’s_ book, ” said St. Clare. “ By it she lived and died, and I would be very sorry to think it did. I'd as soon desire to have it proved that my mother could drink brandy, chew tobacco, and swear, by way of satisfying me that I did right in doing the same. It wouldn't make me at all more satisfied with these things [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] him, in the flush of success; but I persisted in my bargain, and Alfred sold him to me. Well, I took him in hand, and in one fortnight I had him tamed down as submissive and tractable as heart could desire. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ But he does desire it, very earnestly, and his master promised it, ” said Miss Ophelia.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] men, and feeble, discouraged women, or women that were not women,—the strong pushing away the weak,—the gross, unrestricted animal selfishness of human beings, of whom nothing good was expected and desired; and who, treated in every way like brutes, had sunk as nearly to their level as it was possible for human beings to do. To a late hour in the night the sound of the grinding was protracted; for the [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[vocal rhythm] " It's you I desire " Geethanjali... "Won't you come to me?"
(Geethanjali Malli Vachindi)