Usually means: Yearning or craving something intensely.
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  1. desiring: Merriam-Webster
  2. desiring: Collins English Dictionary
  3. desiring: Vocabulary.com
  4. Desiring, desiring: Wordnik
  5. desiring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. desiring: Wiktionary
  7. desiring: Dictionary.com
  8. desiring: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Desiring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Desiring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. desiring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. desiring: FreeDictionary.org
  13. desiring: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. desiring: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. desiring: Legal dictionary

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  1. desiring: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (desiring)

▸ noun:  A yearning for; a want.

Similar:
want, hope, trust, appetition, wish, desideration, longing, ambition, lust, desideratum, more...

Opposite:
averse, indifferent, disinclined

Types:
longing, yearning, craving, pining, ache, hunger, thirst, urge, more...

Phrases:
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, desiring a high goal, desiring food more, opposite of desiring, desiring release, more...

Adjectives:
worth, individual, much, own, human, latter, pure, mere, former, long, active

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     ruby,     burgundy,     rose, more...



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Similar:
want, hope, trust, appetition, wish, desideration, longing, ambition, lust, desideratum, more...

Opposite:
averse, indifferent, disinclined

Types:
longing, yearning, craving, pining, ache, hunger, thirst, urge, more...

Phrases:
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, desiring a high goal, desiring food more, opposite of desiring, desiring release, person desiring expensive gifts, more...

Adjectives:
worth, individual, much, own, human, latter, pure, mere, former, long, active

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     ruby,     burgundy,     rose, more...



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