Crossword-Solution: DESIDERATUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Desideratum | n. | Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “DESIDERATUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| desired object | 1 answer |
| the desiderata for a vacation are time and money | 1 answer |
| something desired as a necessity | 2 answers |
| Something wanted | 2 answers |
| necessaries | 2 answers |
| something considered necessary or desirable | 3 answers |
| Requisite | 60 answers |
| Ambition | 65 answers |
| Wish ___ | 68 answers |
| Desire | 70 answers |
| Goal | 73 answers |
| Necessity | 74 answers |
| Dream | 78 answers |
| Requirement | 84 answers |
| Essential | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DESIDERATUM (5)
She pressed the desideratum of going beyond Boolean searches and performing more sophisticated searching, which the insertion of more markup in the text would facilitate.
FOOTNOTES 1 (return) [ The motto alludes to the Author returning to the stage repeatedly after having taken leave.] 2 (return) [ This very curious poem, long a desideratum in Scottish literature, and given up as irrecoverably lost, was lately brought to light by the researches of Dr Irvine of the Advocates’ Library, and has been reprinted by Mr David Laing, Edinburgh.] 3 (return) [ Vol.
The day may be still remote when this much to be desired desideratum shall be accomplished in portrait taking; but I am led to hope that future experiments may master the secret which now causes it to be looked upon, by many, as an impossibility.
But, confronted with the concrete problem of what desideratum by which tale, and how, the average teacher sometimes finds her cheerfulness displaced by a sense of inadequacy to the situation.
The great necessity for more durable carbons became a desideratum so urgent that the tireless inventor decided to commission another explorer to search the tropical jungles of the Orient.
Quotes with DESIDERATUM (3)
If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue.
Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood. The moment it tries to be anything else it becomes cheap, puerile, and unconvincing. Prime emphasis should be given to subtle suggestion - imperceptible hints and touches of selective associative detail which express shadings of mood and build up a vague illusion of the strange reality of the unreal. Avoid bald cata…
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1976–2022).