: relating to or denoting desire, especially a wish to do
the intellect does not include the emotional and immediately desiderative elements of human nature—H. O. Taylor
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a
of a verb or verb form: derived from or belonging to the inflectional paradigm of a verb and expressing a desire to perform the action denoted by that verb
the desiderative Latin verb esurire "to be hungry" is from edere "to eat"
b
: of or relating to a desiderative verb or verb form
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