Wanting

Adjective

 * 1) Absent or lacking.
 * 2) * 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 171,
 * but where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Derived terms

 * wantingly

Preposition
wanting


 * 1) without

Verb
wanting



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

Pronunciation




Adjective

 * Scottish Gaelic: uireasbhach