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"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
(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
1. long-held desire = długi-trzymać ochota long-held desire
2. fond desire = miła ochota fond desire
3. incestuous desire = kazirodcza ochota incestuous desire
4. absurd desire = ochota absurdu absurd desire
5. misguided desire = błędna ochota misguided desire
6. foolish desire = głupia ochota foolish desire
  • "I haven't traduced you," Garner said, feeling a foolish and clearly hopeless desire to defend himself.
  • The lake, much like the character's foolish desires, has turned into a lagoon of refuse with broken bottles lining its banks.
  • His foolish desire to investigate had brought himself and two others face to face with an overpowering force.
  • I longed to become as the grass again, then mocked myself for so foolish a desire.
  • It was a foolish desire on his part, he suspected.
  • Even knowing how foolish that desire was, he wanted it.
  • But he also knew that this was a foolish desire.
  • I had a foolish desire to burst into tears.
  • Wyngarth's foolish desire to tell his story was something unexpected.
  • I had no patience with what I saw as her foolish desires and she none with my orders.
(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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