States and conditions

Synonyms for desirous

The synonym for desirous recorded in this bank is wishful, in the sense "having or expressing desire for something". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for desirous

wishfuladjective, in the sense "having or expressing desire for something"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for desirous.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampStates and conditions

having or expressing desire for something

Desirous of high office.

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The true synonym

wishful

Same sentence, swapped: Wishful of high office.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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Where desirous turns up in the game

desirous is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play desirous

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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