'Wanting' definitions:
Definition of 'wanting'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Wanting'
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 'Wanting'
From: GCIDE
- Wanting \Want"ing\, a. Absent; lacking; missing; also, deficient; destitute; needy; as, one of the twelve is wanting; I shall not be wanting in exertion. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wanting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absconded,
- absent,
- adulterated,
- appetitive,
- arrested,
- away,
- bankrupt in,
- bare of,
- bereaved,
- bereaved of,
- bereft,
- bereft of,
- blemished,
- callow,
- cut off,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- deleted,
- denuded,
- denuded of,
- departed,
- deprived of,
- desiderative,
- desireful,
- desiring,
- desirous,
- destitute of,
- devoid of,
- disappeared,
- divested,
- eager,
- embryonic,
- empty of,
- erroneous,
- failing,
- fallible,
- fate,
- faulty,
- for want of,
- forlorn of,
- found wanting,
- gone,
- half-assed,
- hoping,
- hormic,
- hypoplastic,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- impure,
- in arrear,
- in arrears,
- in default,
- in default of,
- in short supply,
- in want of,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- incompetent,
- incomplete,
- inexact,
- infant,
- inferior,
- insufficient,
- lacking,
- lascivious,
- libidinal,
- libidinous,
- lickerish,
- lustful,
- makeshift,
- mediocre,
- minus,
- missing,
- mixed,
- needing,
- no longer present,
- nonattendant,
- nonexistent,
- not enough,
- not found,
- not perfect,
- not present,
- off,
- omitted,
- optative,
- out of,
- out of pocket,
- out of sight,
- part,
- parted from,
- partial,
- patchy,
- robbed of,
- sans,
- scant,
- scant of,
- scanty,
- scarce,
- scrappy,
- shorn of,
- short,
- short of,
- shy,
- shy of,
- sketchy,
- stripped of,
- subtracted,
- taken away,
- tempted,
- too little,
- unblessed with,
- underdeveloped,
- undeveloped,
- unequal to,
- uneven,
- unfinished,
- unperfected,
- unpossessed of,
- unqualified,
- unreached,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsatisfying,
- unsound,
- unsufficing,
- unthorough,
- vanished,
- void of,
- wishing