Desert. Solitude, wild, wilderness, waste.
Ant. Oasis, pasture, meadow.
Deserter. Renegade, turncoat, recanter, backslider, abjurer, traitor, apostate.
Ant. Adherent, devotee, supporter, bigot, disciple, ally.
Deserve. Merit, earn, win, be entitled to.
Ant. Forfeit, lose, miss, fail of.
Desideratum. Very desirable thing, requisite, want, essential.
Ant. Superfluity, surplus, perquisite.
Design, n. Intention, purpose, aim, end, scheme, proposal, project, object, plan, device, purport, meaning, drift, scope, mark; delineation, sketch, artifice, drawing, draft; invention, contrivance; cunning, guile.
Ant. Execution, performance, structure, construction, issue, result; candor, openness, sincerity; chance, accident.