desiring

Speech parts

1. desiring - Noun

2. desiring - Verb

Meaning

of Desire

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fain want trust believing demanding wanting eager hungry anxious avid fancy aspiring hopeful longing trusting

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Antonyms

using copying indifferent lazy appalled aloof

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Phrases with the word

desiring knowledge desiring success

Anagrams

residing ringside

Examples

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus

Famine means being deprived of and desiring necessary food. But there is something worse and more wretched than this famine: when someone is deprived of the necessary means of salvation and does not perceive his misfortune, having no desire to be saved. Gregory Palamas

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. Emanuel Swedenborg

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. F. H. Bradley

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Carl Sandburg

By desiring what belongs to others, you lose your own. Bulgarian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

desirelessness desirement desirer desiring knowledge desiring success desiring-production