desideratum
nounHow to pronounce desideratum:
Definition of desideratum:
- desideratum (noun):
- intention or purpose
- something desired as essential
- noun. something desired as a necessity.
Synonyms for desideratum:
condition
demand
desideration
essential
must
must-have
necessary
necessity
need
needful
prerequisite
requirement
requisite
wish
Antonyms for desideratum:
extra
extravagance
indulgence
inessential
luxury
non-essential
non-necessity
nonessential
nonnecessity
option
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- desalination
- derogatory
- deregulation
- demasculinize
- deliverable
- delimitation
- degenerative
- definitively
- dedicatedly
- decomposition
- deceleration
- decapitalize
- debilitating
- dacryoadenitis
- cynophobia
- crystallization
- cruciverbalist
- coxsackievirus
- contraindications
- contradistinction
- continuousness
- continentally
- contextualized
- contamination
- consolidated
- conservatism
- consequential
- consequences
- conjunctivitis
- congregational
- confederacy
- complementary
- competitiveness
- companionably
- communicating
- communicater
- commissioner
- commemorations
- columbarium
- colonization
- colonisation
- colloquially
- collectivism
- collaborative
- coelenterata
- coagulation
- cnidophobia
- circulatory
- ciprofloxacin
- churrigueresco
- … more
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