Word Meanings - APPETITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something. Holland.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APPETITION)

• Ambition
• Aspiration
• emulation
• appetition
• Longing
• desire
• aim
• wish
• craving
• ambition
• endeavor
• hope
• effort
• eagerness

Related words: (words related to APPETITION)

• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• LONGIPALP
  One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
• LONGSPUN
  Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.
• LONGSOME
  Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.
• LONGULITE
  A kind of crystallite having a acicular form.
• LONGSHORE
  Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
• LONGIMETRY
  The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths. Cheyne.
• LONG
  Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 22, 30. Note: Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound adjectives which are mostly of obvious
• LONG-STOP
  One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.
• AMBITIONIST
  One excessively ambitious.
• LONG-TONGUE
  The wryneck.
• ASPIRATION
  1. The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins. 2. The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration. 3. The act
• LONGSPUR
  Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius , and allied genera. The Lapland longspur , the chestnut-colored longspur , and other species, inhabit the United States.
• CRAVEN
  Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay. (more info) struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush,
• LONG-WAISTED
  1. Having a long waist; long from the armpits to the armpits to the bottom of the waist; -- said of persons. 2. Long from the part about the neck or shoulder, or from the armpits, to the bottom of the weist, or to the skirt; -- said of garments;
• LONGHEADED
  Having unusual foresight or sagacity. -- Long"-head`ed*ness, n.
• LONGE
  1. A thrust. See Lunge. Smollett. 2. The training ground for a horse. Farrow.
• LONGBEAK
  The American redbellied snipe ; -- called also long-billed dowitcher.
• LONG-ARMED
  Having long arms; as, the long-armed ape or gibbon.
• LONGIPENNES
  A group of longwinged sea birds, including the gulls, petrels, etc.
• KALONG
  A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
• ALONGSIDE
  Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
• OBLONGLY
  In an oblong form.
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• PLONGE
  To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.
• NIGHTLONG
  Lasting all night.
• OBLONG-OVATE
  Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.