"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 48
(2) sexual, erotic, romantic
Kolokacji: 3
1. deep desire = silna ochota deep desire
2. deepest desire = najsilniejsza ochota deepest desire
3. unaccountable desire = niewytłumaczalna ochota unaccountable desire
4. inexplicable desire = niewytłumaczalna ochota inexplicable desire
  • She still felt an inexplicable desire to find the atium.
  • Do you ever have the inexplicable desire to take a step back bent elbowed shot?
  • The Consul's inexplicable desire to tup females from the lower social orders had finally rendered him vulnerable to blackmail.
  • Nicholas Lezard: The inexplicable desire to marry is everywhere, but modern weddings take more money than love Continue reading...
  • I, too, was filled with a sadness . . . and an inexplicable desire to share feelings that had lain dormant since my banishment.
  • For a long moment she gazed back at him, feeling an inexplicable and totally uncharacteristic desire to do just that.
  • A strange, wholly inexplicable desire to create a prism unfurled within her.
  • Rather than doing either, he returns to the scene of the pawnbroker's murder, for "an irresistible and inexplicable desire drew him on."
  • Not like, say, the one that involves the city's mayor and his inexplicable desire to build almost as many new taxpayer-financed sports stadiums as there are crumbling schools.
  • No such streaks of inexplicable desire turn up in "Everyday People," where there's a good reason for everything.
(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
(19) only, sole
Kolokacji: 2
(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
(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
(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
(42) new, primitive, raw, popular
Kolokacji: 4
(43) similar, same-sex
Kolokacji: 2
(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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