Definitions for desideratum

desideratum de·sid·er·a·tum

Spelling: [dih-sid-uh-rey-tuh m, -rah-, -zid-]
IPA: /dɪˌsɪd əˈreɪ təm, -ˈrɑ-, -ˌzɪd-/

Desideratum is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1120 anagrams from letters in desideratum (addeeimrstu).

Definitions for desideratum

noun

  1. something wanted or needed.

plural noun

  1. things wanted or needed; the plural of desideratum: Synonyms: essentials, necessities, requisites, sine qua nons.

Origin of desideratum

1645-55; Latin, noun use of neuter past participle of dēsīderāre; see desiderate

Examples for desideratum

A revision of genus Cratægus has long been a desideratum with botanists.

If health is a desideratum, one way to attain a lot of it is to cut out the booze.

An appearance of antiquity is never a desideratum to the honest book-collector.

Douglas (Gawyn), a complete edition of his works a desideratum, 38.

How to do something, and still not do too much, is the desideratum.

For in that summery clime shade, not sun, is the desideratum.

There is no sentiment in botany or in chemistry, and in them the desideratum is truth.

Henryson (Robert), a complete edition of his poems a desideratum, 38.

This desideratum of varied tone-colour is sought even by instrumentalists.

To produce and to sell securities in the greatest possible quantity—that was the desideratum.'

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