Desirous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Desirous \De*sir"ous\, a. [F. d['e]sireux, OF. desiros, fr.
     desir. See {Desire}, n.]
     Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain;
     covetous.
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           Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him. --John
                                                    xvi. 19.
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           Be not desirous of his dainties.         --Prov. xxiii.
                                                    3.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  desirous
       adj : having or expressing desire for something; "desirous of high
             office"; "desirous of finding a quick solution to the
             problem" [ant: {undesirous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "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