'Want' definitions:
Definition of 'want'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" [syn: lack, deficiency, want]
noun
Anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants" [syn: need, want]
noun
A specific feeling of desire; "he got his wish"; "he was above all wishing and desire" [syn: wish, wishing, want]
verb
Feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room" [syn: desire, want]
verb
verb
Hunt or look for; want for a particular reason; "Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you"
verb
Wish or demand the presence of; "I want you here at noon!"
verb
Be without, lack; be deficient in; "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter"
Definition of 'Want'
From: GCIDE
- Want \Want\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Wanting.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing. [1913 Webster]
- They that want honesty, want anything. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- Nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The unhappy never want enemies. --Richardson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave. " What wants my son?" --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- I want to speak to you about something. --A. Trollope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Want'
From: GCIDE
- Want \Want\ (277), n. [Originally an adj., from Icel. vant, neuter of vanr lacking, deficient. [root]139. See Wane, v. i.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing. [1913 Webster]
- And me, his parent, would full soon devour For want of other prey. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- From having wishes in consequence of our wants, we often feel wants in consequence of our wishes. --Rambler. [1913 Webster]
- Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and more saucy. --Franklin. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need. [1913 Webster]
- Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches, as to conceive how others can be in want. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which is needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt; what is not possessed, and is necessary for use or pleasure. [1913 Webster]
- Habitual superfluities become actual wants. --Paley. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Indigence; deficiency; defect; destitution; lack; failure; dearth; scarceness. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Want'
From: GCIDE
- Want \Want\, v. i. [Icel. vanta to be wanting. See Want to lack.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; -- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four. [1913 Webster]
- The disposition, the manners, and the thoughts are all before it; where any of those are wanting or imperfect, so much wants or is imperfect in the imitation of human life. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack. [1913 Webster]
- You have a gift, sir (thank your education), Will never let you want. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Want was formerly used impersonally with an indirect object. "Him wanted audience." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'want'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absence,
- ache to,
- adulteration,
- aim at,
- ardor,
- arrearage,
- ask,
- awayness,
- bare cupboard,
- bare necessities,
- bare subsistence,
- be desirous of,
- be dying to,
- be found wanting,
- be hurting for,
- be in want,
- be indicated,
- be inferior,
- be insufficient,
- be pinched,
- be poor,
- become,
- befit,
- beggarliness,
- beggary,
- behoove,
- blank,
- break,
- burn to,
- call for,
- choose,
- choose to,
- claim,
- clamor for,
- collapse,
- come short,
- concupiscence,
- covet,
- crave,
- cry for,
- cry out for,
- curiosity,
- dearly love to,
- dearth,
- decline,
- defalcation,
- default,
- defect,
- defectibility,
- defectiveness,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- demand,
- demand for,
- deprivation,
- desiderate,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- desire,
- destitution,
- discontinuity,
- drive,
- drought,
- eagerness,
- empty purse,
- erroneousness,
- essential,
- essentials,
- exact,
- exigency,
- exiguousness,
- fail,
- fail of,
- fall away,
- fall short,
- fall shy,
- fallibility,
- famine,
- fancy,
- fantasy,
- faultiness,
- favor,
- follow,
- gap,
- go on welfare,
- grinding poverty,
- gripe,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- have designs on,
- have nothing on,
- have occasion for,
- hiatus,
- homelessness,
- hope,
- horme,
- immaturity,
- impairment,
- impecuniousness,
- imperfection,
- impoverishment,
- impurity,
- inaccuracy,
- inadequacy,
- inadequateness,
- incompleteness,
- indigence,
- indispensable,
- inexactitude,
- inexactness,
- insufficiency,
- intellectual curiosity,
- interval,
- itch to,
- kick the beam,
- lack,
- lacuna,
- lag,
- libido,
- like,
- like to,
- long to,
- lose ground,
- love,
- love to,
- lust,
- lust after,
- lust for learning,
- meagerness,
- mediocrity,
- mendicancy,
- mind,
- miss,
- missing link,
- moneylessness,
- must,
- must item,
- necessaries,
- necessities,
- necessitousness,
- necessity,
- need,
- need for,
- need to,
- neediness,
- neverness,
- nonexistence,
- nonoccurrence,
- nonpresence,
- not answer,
- not approach,
- not come near,
- not compare,
- not hack it,
- not make it,
- not make out,
- not measure up,
- not qualify,
- not stretch,
- not suffice,
- nowhereness,
- occasion,
- omission,
- ought,
- outage,
- passion,
- patchiness,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- penury,
- pinch,
- play second fiddle,
- pleasure,
- pleasure principle,
- poorness,
- prefer,
- prerequire,
- prerequirement,
- prerequisite,
- privation,
- rank under,
- require,
- requirement,
- requisite,
- requisition,
- run short,
- run short of,
- scantiness,
- serve,
- sexual desire,
- shortage,
- shortcoming,
- shortfall,
- should,
- sketchiness,
- skimpiness,
- slump,
- starvation,
- starve,
- stop short,
- subserve,
- subtraction,
- take doing,
- take to,
- the necessary,
- the needful,
- thirst for knowledge,
- ullage,
- undevelopment,
- unevenness,
- unperfectedness,
- unsoundness,
- urge,
- want doing,
- want to,
- wantage,
- wanting,
- will,
- will and pleasure,
- wish,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish to,
- wish to goodness,
- wish very much,
- would fain do