setting one's heart on
phrase
as in craving
to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy She set her heart on going to Harvard when she was only a freshman in high school. Synonyms & Similar Words
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- craving
- wanting
- jonesing (for)
- dying (for)
- repining (for)
- panting (after)
- pining (for)
- longing (for)
- lusting (for or after)
- sighing (for)
- hungering (for)
- salivating (for)
- itching (for)
- thirsting (for)
- yearning (for)
- yenning (for)
- hankering (for or after)
- wishing (for)
- desiderating
- aching (for)
- desiring
- enjoying
- coveting
- liking
- loving
- spoiling (for)
- revelling (in)
- grooving (on)
- preferring
- reveling (in)
- delighting (in)
- relishing
- admiring
- fancying
- valuing
- digging
- adoring
- favoring
- appreciating
- treasuring
- prizing
- cherishing
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- hating
- loathing
- despising
- abominating
- abhorring
- detesting
- refusing
- rejecting
- declining
- execrating
- spurning
- second death
- second deck
- second derivative
- Second Empire
- second estate
- second fiddle
- second fiddles
- second floor
- Second Gentleman
- second gentlemen
- second glance
- second growth
- second head
- second injury fund
- second inversion
- second joint
- second ladies
- Second Lady
- second language
- second lieutenant
- second maxilla
- second mile
- second mortgage
- second mourning
- second nature