Desirous
Antonyms of DESIROUS
- hesitant, detached, unmindful, unhopeful, careless, casual, negligent, incurious, heedless, phlegmatic, uninterested, stolid, uneager, insouciant, lackadaisical, lukewarm, frigid, unmoved, unconcerned, disinterested, nonchalant, apathetic, languorous, spiritless, indifferent, aloof, languid, undesirous, cold, halfhearted, impassive, reluctant, stony, dispassionate, unambitious, calm, regardless, cool, unenthusiastic, purposeless.
Examples of usage:
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There was something cowardly, thus to turn back at the edge of experience, incomplete and wistfully desirous. "Together" by Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
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Nevertheless, they were only the more impatient to be released from the responsibility that weighed upon them; and they were in every way desirous of knowing what measures the new government was likely to take. "The Chouans" by Honore de Balzac
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Phillis was as intent as her father; she had hardly time to greet me, so desirous was she to hear some answer to her father's question. "Cousin Phillis" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
