aspiring, ambitious, vaulting, skyaspiring, high-reaching.
desirable; desired &c. v.; in demand; pleasing &c. (giving pleasure)
829; appetizing, appetible[obs3]; tantalizing.
Adv. wistfully &c. adj.; fain.
Int. would that, would that it were! O for! esto perpetual
Phr[Lat]. the wish being father to the thought; sua cuique
voluptas[Lat]; hoc erat in votis[Lat], the mouth watering, the fingers itching; aut Caesar aut nullus[Lat].
“Cassius has a lean and hungry look” [Jul. Caesar]; “hungry as the
grave” [Thomson]; “I was born to other things” [Tennyson]; “not what we wish but what we want” [Merrick]; “such joy ambition finds” [P. L.]; “the sea hath bounds but deep desire hath none” [Venus and Adonis]; ubi mel ibi apes[Lat].
#866. Indifference.
— N. indifference, neutrality; coldness
&c. adj.;
anaphrodisia[obs3]; unconcern, insouciance, nonchalance;
want of interest, want of earnestness; anorexy[obs3],
anorexia, inappetency[obs3]; apathy &c. (insensibility)
823; supineness &c. (inactivity) 683; disdain &c. 930;
recklessness &c. 863; inattention &c. 458.
anaphrodisiac[obs3],
antaphrodisiac[obs3]; lust-quencher, passion-
queller[obs3].
V. be indifferent &c.
adj.; stand neuter; take no interest in &c.
(insensibility) 823; have no desire for &c. 865,have
no taste for, have no relish for; not care for; care
nothing for, care nothing about; not care a straw
about, not care a fig for, not care a whit about &c.
(unimportance) 643; not mind.
set at naught &c. (make
light of) 483; spurn &c. (disdain) 930.
Adj. indifferent, cold,
frigid, lukewarm; cool, cool as a cucumber;
unconcerned, insouciant, phlegmatic, pococurante[obs3],
easygoing, devil-may-care, careless, listless, lackadaisical;
half-hearted; unambitious, unaspiring, undesirous[obs3],
unsolicitous[obs3], unattracted.
[indifferent toward
people] aloof, unapproachable, remote; uncaring.
unattractive, unalluring,
undesired, undesirable, uncared for,
unwished[obs3], unvalued, all one to.
insipid &c. 391; vain.
Adv. for aught one cares.
Int. never mind; Who
cares? whatever you like, whatever.
Phr. I couldn’t
care less, I could care less; anything will do; es
macht nichts [German].
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#867. Dislike.
— N. dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination,
displacency[obs3].
reluctance; backwardness
&c. (unwillingness) 603.
repugnance, disgust,
queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing;
averseness[obs3], aversation|, aversion; abomination,
antipathy, abhorrence, horror; mortal antipathy, rooted
antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror; hatred, detestation;
hate &c. 898; animosity &c. 900; hydrophobia; canine
madness; byssa[obs3], xenophobia. sickener[obs3]; gall
and wormwood &c. (unsavory) 395; shuddering, cold sweat.


