Word Meanings - DESIDERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want. Pray have the goodness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not. Prof. Wilson. Men were beginning . . . to desiderate

Additional info about word: DESIDERATE

To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want. Pray have the goodness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not. Prof. Wilson. Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire. A. W. Ward.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESIDERATE)

• Regret Grieve
• lament
• repent
• miss
• desiderate
• deplore

Related words: (words related to DESIDERATE)

• LAMENTING
  Lamentation. Lamentings heard i' the air. Shak.
• GRIEVE
  1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
• REPENTANT
  1. Penitent; sorry for sin. Chaucer. Thus they, in lowliest plight, repentant stood. Millton. 2. Expressing or showing sorrow for sin; as, repentant tears; repentant ashes. "Repentant sighs and voluntary pains." Pope.
• DEPLOREDNESS
  The state of being deplored or deplorable. Bp. Hail.
• REGRETFUL
  Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining. -- Re*gret"ful*ly, adv.
• LAMENTED
  Mourned for; bewailed. This humble praise,lamented shade ! receive. Pope.
• REPENTANTLY
  In a repentant manner.
• LAMENT
  To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn. Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chron. xxxv. 25. Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. John xvi. 20.
• LAMENTINGLY
  In a lamenting manner.
• DEPLOREMENT
  Deploration.
• DEPLORER
  One who deplores.
• REGRET
  1. Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing; grief; sorrow; especially, a mourning on account of the loss of some
• LAMENTIN
  See LAMANTIN
• REPENTINGLY
  With repentance; penitently.
• REPENTANCE
  The act of repenting, or the state of being penitent; sorrow for what one has done or omitted to do; especially, contrition for sin. Chaucer. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2. Cor. vii. 20. Repentance is a change of mind,
• GRIEVE; GREEVE
  A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.
• GRIEVER
  One who, or that which, grieves.
• DEPLORE
  1. To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over. To find her, or forever to deplore Her loss. Milton. As some sad turtle his lost love deplores. Pope. 2. To complain of. Shak. 3. To regard
• LAMENTABLE
  1. Mourning; sorrowful; expressing grief; as, a lamentable countenance. "Lamentable eye." Spenser. 2. Fitted to awaken lament; to be lamented; sorrowful; pitiable; as, a lamentable misfortune, or error. "Lamentable helplessness." Burke.
• REPENTLESS
  Unrepentant.
• FILAMENTOUS
  Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.
• ENGRIEVE
  To grieve. Spenser.
• IRREPENTANCE
  Want of repentance; impenitence. Bp. Montagu.
• VORTEX FILAMENT
  A vortex tube of infinitesimal cross section.
• LOCULAMENT
  The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.
• INGRIEVE
  To render more grievous; to aggravate. Sir P. Sidney.