The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word WANT , but the solution may also be ENVY which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in LA Times).
Desire crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| WANT | 19 % | 4 |
| YEN | 19 % | 3 |
| URGE | 13 % | 4 |
| WISH | 10 % | 4 |
| ITCH | 8 % | 4 |
| CRAVE | 7 % | 5 |
| HOPEFOR | 4 % | 7 |
| THIRST | 3 % | 6 |
| EROS | 2 % | 4 |
| APPETITE | 2 % | 8 |
| HOPE | 2 % | 4 |
| COVET | 2 % | 5 |
| LUST | 1 % | 4 |
| YEARN | 1 % | 5 |
| ACHE | 1 % | 4 |
| NEED | 1 % | 4 |
| LONGING | 1 % | 7 |
| FEELLIKE | 1 % | 8 |
| WISHFOR | 0 % | 7 |
| CARETO | 0 % | 6 |
| PINEFOR | 0 % | 7 |
| YEARNING | 0 % | 8 |
| ENVY | 0 % | 4 |
| LONG | 0 % | 4 |
| WILL | 0 % | 4 |
| LUSTAFTER | 0 % | 9 |
| YEARNFOR | 0 % | 8 |
| PASSION | 0 % | 7 |
| AIM | 0 % | 3 |
Why may WANT be the right solution?
The word "want" is often used to describe a strong desire or a feeling of lacking something. Therefore, it is an appropriate answer for the clue "Desire."
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Desire
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- want
- hope
- trust
- ambition
- longing
- eagerness
- yearning
- wanting
- wish
- motivation
- passion
- urge
Crossword Answer definitions
WANT noun- A desire, wish, longing.
- (often followed by of) Lack, absence.
- Poverty.
- Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
- A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
- To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.
- (in particular) To wish, desire or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
- To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
- (usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
- (now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
- (now rare) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
- To be lacking or deficient or absent.
- To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
- To lack and be without, to not have (something).
- (by extension) To lack and (be able to) do without.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result WANT
- Fancy
- Thirst for
- Word on an Uncle Sam poster
- Entry on a wish list
- Have a hankering
- Have one's heart set on
- Hanker for
- Verb in a letter to Santa
- Needy condition
- Be deficient in
More clues leading to the result YEN
- Craving
- Hankering
- Kyoto cash
- Kyoto currency
- Urge
- Desire
- Itch
- Yearning
- The capital of Japan?
- Major global currency unit worth about a penny
More clues leading to the result URGE
More clues leading to the result WISH
- Desire
- Request to a genie
- World peace, e.g.
- It may lead to a broken bone
- Genie's grant
- Genie's bestowal
- "Make a ___!"
- Gift from a genie
- Take advantage of a falling star
- You may break a bone after you've made one
More clues leading to the result ITCH
- Backscratcher target
- Chicken-pox symptom
- Want to scratch
- What to scratch
- Ivy affliction
- Antsy feeling
- Allergic reaction
- Yen
- Burning desire
- Characteristic of crabs
More clues leading to the result CRAVE
- Desire
- Have a yen for
- Hunger for
- Want. Really. Badly.
- Ache for
- Desire strongly
- Long for
- More than want
- Desire with fire
- Lust after
More clues leading to the result HOPEFOR
More clues leading to the result THIRST
More clues leading to the result EROS
- Piccadilly Circus statue
- Aphrodite's offspring
- Aphrodite's son
- Cupid's alias
- Greek cupid
- Libidinous deity
- Lover boy
- Piccadilly Circus figure
- Piccadilly figure
- Poem collection
More clues leading to the result APPETITE
- Hunger
- Intake regulator?
- Fondness
- Thanksgiving asset
- Craving
- Longing
- Desire for food
- Desire
- Good thing to have before a meal
- Strong desire
More clues leading to the result HOPE
- Anticipation
- Bob of "Road" films
- Clinton's birthplace
- Partner of faith and charity
- Anthony or Bob
- Wish for
- Wish for something
- Expectation
- Clinton's hometown
- A cardinal virtue
More clues leading to the result COVET
- 10th Commandment word
- Have a yen for
- Break the Tenth Commandment
- Long to have
- Want badly
- Break a Commandment
- Feel envious about
- Badly desire?
- Tenth Commandment word
- Begrudge
More clues leading to the result LUST
- Irving Stone's "__ for Life"
- Craving
- Passionate desire
- Deadly sin
- Lasciviousness
- Overpowering passion
- Libidinous yen
- Want only wantonly
- Unseemly want
- Be like a lecher
More clues leading to the result YEARN
- Long
- Long for
- Feel a longing
- Want badly
- Hanker after, with "for"
- Harbor longings
- Long (for)
- Feel nostalgia, e.g.
- Pine
- Have a hankering
More clues leading to the result ACHE
- Head starter
- Charley horse
- Dull pain
- Head ailment
- Pain in the neck
- Pine
- Sore point
- Sore spot
- Tummy trouble
- Yearn
More clues leading to the result NEED
- Burden
- Poverty-stricken state
- Call for
- Can't live without
- Exigency
- Require
- Requirement
- Requisite
- Scholarship factor
- Shortfall
More clues leading to the result LONGING
More clues leading to the result FEELLIKE
More clues leading to the result WISHFOR
More clues leading to the result CARETO
More clues leading to the result PINEFOR
- Want in the worst way
- Hanker after
- Miss greatly
- Desire deeply
- Desire intensely
- Miss badly
- Achingly desire
- Desire
- Miss a lot
More clues leading to the result YEARNING
- Heartfelt wish
- Longing
- Strong desire
- Itch
- Desire
- Yen
- "... _____ to breathe free" (Statue of Liberty inscription)
More clues leading to the result ENVY
- Begrudge
- Covet
- Green signifier
- One of the Seven Deadly Sins
- Deadly sin
- Coveter's sin
- Begrudge, maybe
- Covetousness
- Member of a "deadly" septet
- 50% of moral indignation, per Vittorio De Sica
More clues leading to the result LONG
- Hanker for
- Louisiana's "Kingfish"
- North Atlantic island
- Protracted
- 1956 Little Richard hit "____ Tall Sally"
- Aspire
- Have a desire
- Yearn
- Needing editing, perhaps
- Yearn (for)
More clues leading to the result WILL
- Bequeath
- Codicil preceder
- "You ___ be assimilated" ("Star Trek" catchphrase)
- Determination
- It details what's left
- Ability to choose
- Desire and grit
- Future-tense helping verb
- Volition
- "Where there's a ___..."
More clues leading to the result LUSTAFTER
More clues leading to the result YEARNFOR
More clues leading to the result PASSION
- Intense emotion
- Fervor
- Elizabeth Taylor perfume
- Representation of Jesus's sufferings
- Ardor
- Cherished activity
- Depth of feeling
- Zeal
- ___ pit (drive-in movie theater, in older slang)
- Emotion of compelling force.