desirous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: de=sir=ous

OXFORD DICTIONARY

desirous, predic.adj.
1 (usu. foll. by of) ambitious, desiring (desirous of stardom; desirous of doing well).
2 (usu. foll. by to + infin., or that + clause) wishful; hoping (desirous to do the right thing).

Etymology

ME f. AF desirous, OF desireus f. Rmc (as DESIRE)

THESAURUS

desirous

acquisitive, agog, alacritous, all agog, amative, amatory, amorous, animated, anxious, appetitive, ardent, avid, breathless, bursting to, desiderative, desireful, desiring, eager, erotic, forward, full of life, grabby, grasping, greedy, hopeful, hoping, hormic, impassioned, impatient, itchy, keen, lascivious, libidinal, libidinous, lickerish, lively, longing, loverlike, loverly, lustful, needing, optative, panting, passionate, prehensile, prompt, quick, raring to, ready, ready and willing, sexual, spirited, tempted, vital, vivacious, vivid, wanting, wishful, wishing, yearning, zestful

ROGET THESAURUS

desirous

Desire

N desire, wish, fancy, fantasy, want, need, exigency, mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection, propensity, willingness, liking, love, fondness, relish, longing, hankering, inkling, solicitude, anxiety, yearning, coveting, aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition, eagerness, zeal, ardor, empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety, impetuosity, appetite, appetition, appetence, appetency, sharp appetite, keenness, hunger, stomach, twist, thirst, thirstiness, drouth, mouthwatering, itch, itching, prurience, cacoethes, cupidity, lust, concupiscence, edge of appetite, edge of hunger, torment of Tantalus, sweet tooth, lickerish tooth, itching palm, longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye, greed, voracity, passion, rage, furore, mania, manie, inextinguishable desire, dipsomania, kleptomania, lover, amateur, votary, devotee, aspirant, solicitant, candidate, applicant, supplicant, cormorant, desideratum, want, a consummation devoutly to be wished, attraction, magnet, allurement, fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's ambition, idol, whim, whimsy, whimsey, maggot, hobby, hobby-horse, Fortunatus's cap, wishing cap, wishing stone, wishing well, desirous, desiring, inclined, 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, greedy, unsatisfied, unsated, unslaked, unsaturated, eager, avid, keen, burning, fervent, ardent, agog, all agog, breathless, impatient, bent on, intent on, set on, bent upon, intent upon, set upon, mad after, enrage, rabid, dying for, devoured by desire, aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching, desirable, desired, in demand, pleasing, appetizing, appetible, tantalizing, wistfully, fain, Int, would that, would that it were!, O for!, esto perpetual, the wish being father to the thought, sua cuique voluptas, hoc erat in votis, the mouth watering, the fingers itching, aut Caesar aut nullus, Cassius has a lean and hungry look, hungry as the grave, I was born to other things, not what we wish but what we want, such joy ambition finds, the sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none, ubi mel ibi apes.