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Antonyms for desiredde·sired

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  1. coveted, desired, in demand(p), sought afteradjective

    greatly desired

    Antonyms:
    undesirable, unwanted

  2. craved, desiredadjective

    wanted intensely

    "the child could no longer resist taking one of the craved cookies"; "it produced the desired effect"

    Antonyms:
    undesirable, unwanted

    Synonyms:
    craved, coveted, in demand(p), sought after

How to use desired in a sentence?

  1. Robert Southey:

    The core banks are in a catch 22, they can't all sell out at their desired price, whilst applying usual lending criteria is fraught with the risk that markets worsen and they are left holding the bag.

  2. Simon Wheatcroft:

    To run in the right direction all you need is a bearing, so it may be 40 degrees north that you need to run for a certain amount of time. So we created an app that would notify me if I deviated from the desired bearing. And the way it did that was using beeps, much like parking sensors, so the further you deviated from the bearing the higher the frequency of the beeps.

  3. Horace:

    The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

  4. Jens David Ohlin:

    It's uncharted legal terrain, if the framers of the Constitution desired a president who was completely immune from all forms of criminal prosecution, they would have said so.

  5. Brian Hamilton:

    Square's financials leave much to be desired. But there's still a lot to like here, and think the success of their debut will say a lot about the current IPO environment.

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#21797undesirable

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