Want

Verb

 * 1)  To wish for or to desire (something).
 * What do you want to eat?
 * 1)  To be lacking, not to exist.
 * There was something wanting in the play.
 * 1)  To lack, not to have (something).
 * 2) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.7:
 * he that hath skill to be a pilot wants a ship; and he that could govern a commonwealth [...] wants means to exercise his worth, hath not a poor office to manage.
 * 1)  To be in need of; to require (something).
 * That chair wants fixing.
 * 1) * 1922,,  Chapter 2
 * The mowing-machine always wanted oiling. Barnet turned it under Jacob's window, and it creaked—creaked, and rattled across the lawn and creaked again.

Synonyms

 * wish for, would like
 * be without
 * need, be in need of

Derived terms

 * I want to know
 * want-away


 * wanted
 * want for


 * wanting
 * waste not, want not

Noun

 * 1)  A desire, wish, longing.
 * 2)  Lack, absence.
 * 3) * c. 1591 William Shakespeare, King Henry VI Part 2, act 4, sc. 8:
 * [H]eavens and honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me, but only my followers' base and ignominious treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.
 * 1) * For Want of a Nail:
 * For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
 * For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
 * For want of a horse the rider was lost.
 * For want of a rider the battle was lost.
 * For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
 * And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
 * 1)  Poverty.

Derived terms

 * want ad

Adjectives for Want
abject; burning; thirsty; fiery; gnawing acute; actual; spontaneous; unreflected needful; artificial; common; utter; frank fearless; passionate; respective; material immediate; total; unpardonable; unbounded; shameful; endless; wondrous; tender squalid; divine; present; narrow; curious presumptive; ripe; absolute; modest; lower spiritual; conscious; returning; sufficient.

Verbs for Want
administer to—s; anticipate—s; come to—; consult—s; correct—; diminish—s; discharge —s; express—; gratify—; impoverish with —; intensify—; mark by—; occasion—; provide for—s; reduce to—; subject to—; suffer—; —blemishes; —goads on; — multiply.

Adverbs for Want
desperately; distressingly; intensely; vaguely; immediately; manifestly; particularly; shamelessly; absolutely; immodestly; spiritually; wistfully; conspicuously; abjectly; passionately.

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

Pronunciation

 * (some accents), ,
 * (some accents), ,
 * (some accents), ,
 * (some accents), ,
 * (some accents), ,
 * (some accents), ,

Etymology
From wanten:, from  vanta:, from, from , from. Cognate with wan:,  wan:,  wana:. See.

Verb

 * Afrikaans: wil
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Arabic: أراد, رغب
 * Egyptian Arabic:  ,
 * Moroccan Arabic:
 * Armenian: ուզել,
 * Belarusian: хацець, жадаць
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: voler
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , , ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, kræve
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Fijian: vinakata
 * Filipino: magustohan
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: dezirar, volar (want to)
 * Indonesian: mau, hendak, menginginkan
 * Interlingua: voler
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,  ,   (-i verb base + -tai, 1st person only),  たがる (-i verb base + -tagaru, 2nd and 3rd person only)


 * Korean:, ,  ,  ,  싶다
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji: ,
 * Sorani:
 * Latin: carere (lack/need), velle (wish)
 * Latvian: gribēt, vēlēties
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: сака
 * Mongolian: дурлах
 * Nahuatl: nequí
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English:
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: vorej
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: muna-
 * Russian: хотеть,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: хтети
 * Roman: hteti
 * Slovak: chcieť
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: batla
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: కోరుకొను (korukonu), వాంఛించు (vamchinchu)
 * Thai:, ต้องการ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: хотіти,
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük: vilön
 * Welsh: eisiau
 * Yiddish:
 * Zazaki:

Noun

 * Russian: потребность, желание


 * Armenian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Norwegian:
 * Romanian: lipsă (de)


 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:, , ,
 * Telugu: వాంఛ (vamcha), కోరిక (korika)


 * Armenian:
 * Norwegian:


 * Russian:, нужда

Anagrams

 * tawn

Noun

 * 1) mitten


 * 1) shroud, sideways support for a mast.

Conjunction

 * 1) for, because
 * Hij komt niet, want hij is ziek. &mdash; He is not coming, because he is sick.  (Note: The order is SVO after want.)

Synonyms

 * omdat

Etymology 2
From want:, from  wanda:, from.

Noun

 * 1) wall