Desirous

Definition: Desirous

Desirous

Adjective

1. Having or expressing desire for something; "desirous of high office"; "desirous of finding a quick solution to the problem".

Date "desirous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Antonym: undesirous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Desire	Adjective: desirous; desiring; Verb: inclined; (willing); partial to; fain, wishful, optative; anxious, wistful, curious; at a loss for, sedulous, solicitous. craving, hungry, sharp-set, peckish, ravening, with an empty stomach, esurient, lickerish, thirsty, athirst, parched with thirst, pinched with hunger, famished, dry, drouthy; hungry as a hunter, hungry as a hawk, hungry as a horse, hungry as a church mouse, hungry as a bear.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	A walk around the Lakes : observations relative chiefly to the picturesque beauty, for those desirous of being guided to the Lake District in the North-West of England, particularly the lakes, mountains, and valleys, made on a pedestrian tour in the year (reference) (more book examples)
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	Sir Sagramoe le Desirous.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Benedict Spinoza	Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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Author	Date	Quotation
Magna Carta	1215	Since, moveover, for God and the amendment of our kingdom and for the better allaying of the quarrel that has arisen between us and our barons, we have granted all these concessions, desirous that they should enjoy them in complete and firm endurance forever, we give and grant to them the underwritten security, namely, that the barons choose five and twenty barons of the kingdom, whomsoever they will, who shall be bound with all their might, to observe and hold, and cause to be observed, the peace and liberties we have granted and confirmed to them by this our present Charter, so that if we, or our justiciar, or our bailiffs or any one of our officers, shall in anything be at fault towards anyone, or shall have broken any one of the articles of this peace or of this security, and the offense be notified to four barons of the foresaid five and twenty, the said four barons shall repair to us (or our justiciar, if we are out of the realm) and, laying the transgression before us, petition to have that transgression redressed without delay. (reference)
Communist Manifesto	1848	A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances, in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society. (reference)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	The High Contracting Parties will facilitate as much as possible postal and telegraphic communication at the expense of the parties concerned and through the intervention of the Clearing Offices between debtors and creditors desirous of coming to an agreement as to the amount of their debt. (reference)
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	It was a very great relief to Emma to find Harriet as desirous as herself to avoid a meeting.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	I was very desirous to see the chief temple, and particularly the tower belonging to it, which is reckoned the highest in the kingdom.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. The modern Theosophist holds, with the Buddhists, that we live an incalculable number of times on this earth, in as many several bodies, because one life is not long enough for our complete spiritual development; that is, a single lifetime does not suffice for us to become as wise and good as we choose to wish to become. To be absolutely wise and good -- that is perfection; and the Theosophist is so keen-sighted as to have observed that everything desirous of improvement eventually attains perfection. Less competent observers are disposed to except cats, which seem neither wiser nor better than they were last year. The greatest and fattest of recent Theosophists was the late Madame Blavatsky, who had no cat.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Madison	1809-1817	The cruelty of the enemy in enlisting the savages into a war with a nation desirous of mutual emulation in mitigating its calamities has not been confined to any one quarter.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Sincerely desirous of preserving the pacific relations which had so long existed between the two countries, I was anxious to avoid this course if I could be satisfied that by so neither the interests nor the honor of my country would be compromised.
Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	I can not be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the National Constitution amended.
Theodore Roosevelt	1901-1909	We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights.
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"Desirous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Desirous" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	46	50,285

Expressions using "desirous": be desirous ♦ be desirous of smth.. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "desirous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dëshirues, lakmues (avid, covetous, gluttonous, indicator). (various references)

Arabic		‏متلهف (anxious, longing, pining, regretful, sorrowful, yearning), ‏راغب فى. (various references)

Bulgarian		което желае. (various references)

Chinese		渴望 (desire, wishful). (various references)

Czech		žádostivý (covetous, hungry). (various references)

Farsi		مایل (Fond, Gauche, Lief, Oblique, Solicitous, Wilful), مشتاق (Agog, Anxious, Avid, Eager, Earnest, Enthusiast, Enthusiastic, Fervid, Fond, Hippie, Hungry, Keen, Perfervid, Raring, Solicitous, Studious, Thirsty, Wilful, Wishful, Wistful), خواهان (Actor, Candidate, Complainant, Fond, Studious, Wishful), خواسته (Desire, Request, Want, Wish, Would), ارزومند (Ambitious, Anxious, Avid, Solicitous, Wishful, Wistful). (various references)

Finnish		kärkäs (greedy), erittäin halukas (anxious, eager). (various references)

French		désireux (desirously). (various references)

German		begierig (acquisitive, avid, avidly, aware, desirously, eager, greedy, hungry, keen, thirstily, thirsty, wishful), begehrlich (covetous, covetously). (various references)

Greek		επιθυμών (desirous of, longing, willing, wisher, wishful). (various references)

Hebrew		תאב (avid, craving, eager, greedy, longing, thirsty), שוקק (bustling, yearning), חשק� י (amorous, prurient, salacious), צמא (parched, thirst, thirstiness). (various references)

Hungarian		sóvárgó (emulous, languorous, longing, wishful, wistful, yearning), vágyódó (longing, nostalgic). (various references)

Indonesian		ingin (want). (various references)

Italian		desideroso (agog, covetous, eager, hungry, longing, wishful, yearning). (various references)

Manx		miandagh (addict, craver, desirable, lustful), dooilloil. (various references)

Pig Latin		esirousday

Portuguese		desejoso (anxious, hard set, hungry, solicitous, wishful, wistful). (various references)

Romanian		dornic (agog, anxious, eager, greedy, wishful), doritor (eager, keen, longing, thirsty). (various references)

Russian		желающий. (various references)

Scottish		déidheil (addicted to), toileach (voluntary), sanntach (greedy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		koji žudi za nečim, žudan (avid, covetous, craving, hungry, keen, longing), željan (avid, covetous, craving, eager, keen, wishful). (various references)

Spanish		deseoso (anxious, willing, wishful). (various references)

Swedish		lysten (greedy, itching, lustful, prurient), ivrig (agog, anxious, ardent, avid, diligent, dying, eager, earnest, fervent, fervid, great, keen, strenuous, strong, urgent, warm, willing, wisful, zealous). (various references)

Turkish		istekli (agog, ambitious, anxious, applicant, aspirant, athirst for, cheerful, covetous, dead set, devout, disposed, eager, enthusiastic, forward, full of zeal, hellbent, inclinable, inclined, intense, intent, itching, itchy, keen, minded, ready, solicitous, strong, thirsty, voracious, willing, wishful, wistful), hevesli (ambitious, anxious, eager, earnest, enthusiastic, full of zeal, game, great, greedy, hellbent, intent, itching, itchy, keen, responsive, spirited, studious, zealous), arzulu (agog, ambitious, athirst for, avid, longing, prurient, solicitous, wishful, wistful, yearning). (various references)

Turkmen		gцwьnjeс (desirous of, wanting to). (various references)

Ukranian		бажаючий (wishful). (various references)

Vietnamese		thèm muốn; ước ao, mơ ước, khát khao (longing, yearning). (various references)

Welsh		chwannog (addicted), awyddus (anxious, eager, zealous). (various references)
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Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	cupiens, cupientes, cupientibus, cupientis, expetens, indigus, indiguus. (various references)
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Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 3
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Ei de aplhstoteroV ei mh epiqumei twn edesmatwn autou tauta gar ecetai zwhV yeudouV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Ne desideres de cibis eius in quo est panis mendacii
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Ne desire thou of the metis of hym, in the whiche is the bred of lesing.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful food.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
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Language	Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 3
Cebuano	Ayaw pagtinguhaa ang iyang mga lamiang pagkaon; Sa nakita mo nga sila maoy malimbongon nga makaon.
Croatian	ne poželi slastica njegovih jer su jelo prijevarno.
Danish	Attrå ikke hans lækre Retter, thi det er svigefuld kost.
Dutch	Laat u niet gelusten zijner smakelijke spijzen, want het is een leugenachtig brood.
Finnish	Älä himoitse hänen herkkujansa, sillä ne ovat petollisia ruokia.
French	Ne convoite pas ses friandises: C`est un aliment trompeur.
German	Wünsche dir nichts von seinen feinen Speisen; denn es ist falsches Brot.
Haitian Creole	Pa pote lanvi sou bon ti manje l'ap ofri ou yo. Se ka yon pèlen li tann pou ou.
Hungarian	Ne kivánd az õ csemegéit; mert ezek hazug étkek.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Jangan rakus akan makanan enak yang dihidangkannya, barangkali ia hendak menjebak engkau.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Dan jangan ingin terlalu akan makanannya yang sedap, karena itulah hidangan penipu adanya.
Italian	Non desiderare le sue ghiottonerie, sono un cibo fallace.
Maori	Kaua e hiahia ki ana mea reka: he kai tinihanga hoki era.
Norwegian	Vær ikke lysten efter hans fine retter, for det er mat som kan svike!
Portuguese	Não cobices os seus manjares gostosos, porque é comida enganadora.
Rumanian	Nu pofti mkncqrile lui alese, cqci sknt o hranq knwelqtoare.
Russian	оЕ � ТЕМШЭБКУС МБЛПНЩНЙ СУФЧБНЙ ЕЗП; ЬФП--П�'НБОЮЙЧБС � ЙЭБ.
Spanish	No codicies sus manjares delicados, porque es pan de engaño.
Swedish	Var ej lysten efter hans smakliga rätter, ty de äro en bedräglig kost.
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "desirous": desirously, desirousness, desirousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Desirous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: delirous, Deniros, deserous, desidous, desireous, desirious, detrious, dizygous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "desirous" (pronounced duzī"rus)
4	-ī" r u s	cytomegalovirus, Iris, retrovirus, virus.
3	-r u s	actress, ambassadress, ambidextrous, arris, Brontosaurus, buttress, chorus, Cirrus, citrus, congress, Cypress, Cyprus, dextrous, disastrous, embarrass, estrous, estrus, ferrous, fibrous, fortress, hantavirus, headmistress, heiress, hubris, huntress, hydrous, idolatrous, ludicrous, lustrous, Madras, maquiladoras, mattress, mistress, monstrous, Morris, nitrous, nonferrous, ogress, polyandrous, porous, puris, seamstress, sorus, stegosaurus, temptress, terrace, thesaurus, Tyrannosaurus, waitress, walrus, wondrous.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-o-r-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: dossier, dousers, serious, sudsier.
	-2 letters: disuse, dories, dosers, dosser, douser, douses, druses, duress, issued, issuer, osiers, resids, resods, roused, rouses, seisor, serous, sieurs, soured, soused, sudors, sudser, uredos.
	-3 letters: doers, doser, doses, douse, dress, dries, dross, druse, dures, duros, eidos, euros, issue, osier, ourie, redos, resid, resod, rides, rises, risus, rosed, roses, roues.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-o-r-s-s-u"
	+1 letter: diestrous, discourse, disposure, outsiders, sourdines.
	+2 letters: birdhouses, courtsides, desirously, disclosure, discoursed, discourser, discourses, disposures, outstrides, overissued, subeditors, subperiods, sudatories.
	+3 letters: disclosures, discounters, discourages, discoursers, discourtesy, furanosides, furosemides, moisturised, outdressing, oversudsing, rediscounts, superoxides.
	+4 letters: adenoviruses, countrysides, desirousness, destructions, discomposure, discouragers, discourteous, droughtiness, gourmandises, groundfishes, misconstrued, outsiderness, subdirectors, subordinates, sudoriferous, superimposed, understories, urediospores.
	+5 letters: avoirdupoises, deliriousness, desultoriness, discomfitures, discomposures, discourtesies, ludicrousness, misunderstood, nondisclosure, nondiscursive, overdiscounts, praseodymiums, reductionisms, reductionists, rhabdoviruses, serendipitous, splendiferous, surrejoinders, unworldliness.
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