DESIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does desired mean? 

• DESIRED (adjective)
  The adjective DESIRED has 1 sense:

1. wanted intensely

  Familiarity information: DESIRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wanted intensely

Synonyms:

craved; desired

Context example:

it produced the desired effect

Similar:

wanted (desired or wished for or sought)

 Context examples 

In medicine, the ability of an intervention (for example, a drug or surgery) to produce the desired beneficial effect.

(Efficacy, NCI Dictionary)

But the blots were more expressive to me than the best composition; for they showed me that Peggotty had been crying all over the paper, and what could I have desired more?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

These variants possess properties comparable to the desired product and are not considered impurities.

(Pharmaceutical Product-related Substance, NCI Thesaurus)

The branch of pharmacology that deals with the biochemical and physiological effects of a drug and the mechanism of drug action in relation to its desired therapeutic target.

(Pharmacology: Primary Pharmacodynamics, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Any physical or mental impairment that interferes with an individual's ability to perform desired activities.

(Disability, NCI Thesaurus)

Anything that is necessary but lacking; the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior.

(Need, NCI Thesaurus)

Elastic bands used in orthodontics to move teeth in a desired direction.

(Elastics, NCI Thesaurus)

Creating slice views from a 3D image with their planes having desired orientations.

(Multi-planar Reformatting, NCI Thesaurus)

The branch of pharmacology that deals with the biochemical and physiological effects of a drug and the mechanism of drug action not related to its desired therapeutic target.

(Pharmacology: Secondary Pharmacodynamics, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This was the man that looked at White Fang, delighted in his ferocious prowess, and desired to possess him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)