desired

[de·sire]

Anything desired is sought after. Money and love are desired by just about everyone. If your moony eyes don’t have the desired effect, then you’re still not getting seconds on dessert.

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Adjective S.
greatly desired

Adjective S.
wanted intensely; "the child could no longer resist taking one of the craved cookies"; "it produced the desired effect"


imp. & p. p.
of Desire


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Usage Examples

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

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