The hotel has everything you could possibly desire.desiredesire2 ●●○ verb [transitive] 
The hotel has everything you could possibly desire.desire to do something He desired to return to Mexico. Add lemon juice if desired.RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say want rather than desire, although the meaning of desire is stronger than want:· You can have anything you want.· I wanted to meet her.2 literary to want to have sex with someone—desired adjective: His remarks had the desired effect.GRAMMAR: Using the progressiveDesire is not usually used in the progressive. You say: · He desires adventure. ✗Don’t say: He is desiring adventure.Grammar guide ‒ VERBS
WORD ORIGINdesire2
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French desirer, from Latin desiderare, from sidus ‘star’ (perhaps from the idea of ‘wishing on a star’)VERB TABLE
desire
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | desire |
| he, she, it | desires | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | desired |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have desired |
| he, she, it | has desired | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had desired |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will desire |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have desired |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- I think the Israelis as a people desire peace.
- No longer did I desire conventions of little nymphets, each one wearing playboy's plastic name badge.
- Taste and add a little sugar or artificial sweetener, if desired.
- This insight taught me something about the enormous power that is generated by desiring something very much.
- This is the first and perhaps the last time that I shall desire it.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The hotel has everything you could possibly desire. Add lemon juice if desired. His remarks had the desired effect.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an earnest desire to offer something useful to society The reforms are motivated by a genuine concern for the disabled. a genuine fear of invasion his insatiable appetite for power our insatiable thirst for knowledge As a policy, it did not produce the desired effect. an unconscious need to be lovedCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
The hotel has everything you could possibly desire. Add lemon juice if desired. His remarks had the desired effect. an earnest desire to offer something useful to society (=the effect you want)· His team talk had the desired effect because the team went on to win the game.
(=say what you hope or want to happen)· Nadia expressed her hopes about remaining in San Diego County with her two children.
(=things such as drinking, eating a lot, or having sex)
The reforms are motivated by a genuine concern for the disabled. a genuine fear of invasion his insatiable appetite for power our insatiable thirst for knowledge· Fred felt an intense desire to punch Max in the face.
· The desired outcome of most services is a satisfied customer.
As a policy, it did not produce the desired effect.· These severe measures did not always produce the desired results.
· It is difficult to satisfy a desire for power.
· People have a strong desire for personal independence.
an unconscious need to be loved· Should the Committee so desire, we would be pleased to provide further details on this estimate.
NOUN· He spoke for about five minutes and achieved the desired effect.· This appeared to have the desired effect.· Longstreet merely sent another note directing that if the artillery fire had the desired effect the attack was to go forward.· His heavy-handed tactics usually had their desired effect in reducing men to quivering wrecks.· My article was published, and it seemed to have the desired effect.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► be burning with rage/desire etc► your heart’s desire/everything your heart could desire► be seized with/by terror/desire etc► slake a desire/craving etc
- Both books, written out of what had gradually become a burning ambition, were however nothing more than starters.
- Bruce was a short, stocky man with red hair and a burning ambition.
- But they didn't reckon with her burning ambition to win a third time.
- His own unashamed, burning ambition is' to make money.
- I just have never had a burning desire to practice law.
- It hadn't been an easy task, and in spite of his burning ambition and will to succeed.
- The second time, it was a passion, a burning desire.
- You see, she had this burning ambition to succeed on the stage.
- And it was from these experiments that Work place 2000 emerged as the response to a compelling need for change.
- Most women with bulimia, particularly those with a history of anorexia, have a compelling desire to be thinner.
- Such freedoms can be abridged only if the state shows it has a compelling need to do so.
- Suddenly I had a compelling urge to look at Wilkerson.
- She felt a flame of anger flicker and grow.
- Bob's idea of a balanced diet left something to be desired.
- His treatment of capital and profits left much to be desired.
- On the campaign trail, his oratorical skills have left much to be desired.
- On theoretical grounds, however, it leaves much to be desired.
- The quality of research in the area of child abuse still leaves much to be desired.
- To some degree they have been hampered by courses of study and lesson plans thai leave something to be desired.
- While the woodwind and low strings were reasonably well replicated, the violins, timpani and brass left much to be desired.
- Yet, as a match, it left something to be desired.
- A spendthrift with a regular, secure income is an object of desire among bankers.
- Because of this, a household obliged to sponsor many feasts gains no prestige, but becomes rather an object of pity.
- He left Downing Street in 1963 almost an object of ridicule, condemned in Gibbonian terms as the symbol of national decay.
- Mitch's image alone does not make clear that he will be mocked rather than taken seriously as an object of desire.
- She became an object of ridicule.
- Unfortunately Piggy had been demoted to an object of ridicule by this point in the book so nobody listened to him.
- Yet he is held up as an object of ridicule and loathing throughout the land.
WORD FAMILYnoundesirabilitydesireadjectivedesirable ≠ undesirabledesired ≠ undesiredverbdesireadverbdesirably
1 formal to want something very much: The hotel has everything you could possibly desire.desire to do something He desired to return to Mexico. Add lemon juice if desired.RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say want rather than desire, although the meaning of desire is stronger than want:· You can have anything you want.· I wanted to meet her.2 literary to want to have sex with someone—desired adjective: His remarks had the desired effect.GRAMMAR: Using the progressiveDesire is not usually used in the progressive. You say: · He desires adventure. ✗Don’t say: He is desiring adventure.Grammar guide ‒ VERBS