"desire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

desire sustantivo

sustantivo + desire

Kolokacji: 3

heart desire • Streetcar Desire • consumer desire

desire + verbo

Kolokacji: 42

desire leads • desire makes • desire comes • desire grows • desire causes • ...

verbo + desire

Kolokacji: 68

name Desire • reflect one's desire • satisfy one's desire • understand one's desire • express a desire • state one's desire • ...

adjetivo + desire

Kolokacji: 168

strong desire • sexual desire • great desire • human desire • overwhelming desire • intense desire • real desire • personal desire • ...

colocaciones frecuentes

Kolokacji: 17

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 48

(1) strong, powerful, compelling, overriding

Kolokacji: 4

(2) sexual, erotic, romantic

Kolokacji: 3

(3) great, overwhelming, intense, fierce, keen, ...

Kolokacji: 15

(4) human, understandable, strange, illicit

Kolokacji: 4

(5) real, genuine, sincere, earnest, true, ...

Kolokacji: 7

(6) personal, individual, public, private

Kolokacji: 4

(7) deep, deepest, unaccountable, inexplicable

Kolokacji: 4

(8) sudden, immediate, express

Kolokacji: 3

(9) natural, instinctive

Kolokacji: 2

(10) secret, dark, hidden, unspoken

Kolokacji: 4

(11) insatiable, unquenchable

Kolokacji: 2

(12) simple, mere

Kolokacji: 2

(13) ultimate, American, basic, initial

Kolokacji: 4

(14) urgent, profound, primal, fundamental

Kolokacji: 4

(15) desperate, single-minded, competitive

Kolokacji: 3

(16) passionate, ardent, fervent, fanatical, lustful, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(17) greatest, pent-up, inordinate, excessive, sinful

Kolokacji: 5

1. greatest desire = najbardziej wielka ochota greatest desire

He lifted the light and stared into the opening, a man who has found his greatest desire.
Not only that, but I shall provide you with what is your greatest desire.
And my greatest desire was always to become a general.
One of them said: "List your greatest desires in life (other than a white girl)."
Our greatest desire in business is to increase our market share.
Which, like all of these men, was probably his greatest desire.
Unfortunately, his greatest desire satisfied, he only had six more years to live.
Only his brother stood between him and his greatest desire.
My greatest desire is to return to my home and never leave it again.
For indeed I have the greatest desire to lose some.

2. pent-up desire = tłumiona ochota pent-up desire

3. inordinate desire = nadmierna ochota inordinate desire

4. excessive desire = nadmierna ochota excessive desire

5. sinful desire = grzeszna ochota sinful desire

(18) common, mutual, shared, collective, unrequited

Kolokacji: 5

(19) only, sole

Kolokacji: 2

(20) particular, general, widespread, universal

Kolokacji: 4

(21) carnal, physical, sensual, bodily

Kolokacji: 4

(22) selfish, vain, altruistic

Kolokacji: 3

(23) apparent, obvious, evident

Kolokacji: 3

(24) female, male, feminine

Kolokacji: 3

(25) unconscious, conscious

Kolokacji: 2

(26) obsessive, compulsive

Kolokacji: 2

(27) homosexual, heterosexual, homoerotic, lesbian

Kolokacji: 4

(28) slight, low

Kolokacji: 2

(29) innate, inborn

Kolokacji: 2

(30) irresistible, overpowering

Kolokacji: 2

(31) irrational, insane, unnatural

Kolokacji: 3

(32) unfulfilled, frustrated

Kolokacji: 2

(33) uncontrollable, perverse

Kolokacji: 2

(34) mad, frantic, feverish, sick

Kolokacji: 4

(35) constant, persistent, long-standing, relentless, endless

Kolokacji: 5

(36) worldly, earthly

Kolokacji: 2

(37) vague, palpable, faint

Kolokacji: 3

(38) lifelong, longstanding

Kolokacji: 2

(39) unsatisfied, latent, restless

Kolokacji: 3

(40) clear, pure, sheer

Kolokacji: 3

(41) long-held, fond, incestuous, absurd, misguided, ...

Kolokacji: 6

(42) new, primitive, raw, popular

Kolokacji: 4

(43) similar, same-sex

Kolokacji: 2

(44) childish, adolescent, youthful, newfound

Kolokacji: 4

(45) inner, inherent, intrinsic

Kolokacji: 3

(46) deep-seated, legitimate

Kolokacji: 2

(47) noble, laudable

Kolokacji: 2

(48) contradictory, conflicting

Kolokacji: 2

preposición + desire

Kolokacji: 23

of desire • to one's desire • in one's desire • for one's desire • about one's desire • ...

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