WANT


Meaning of WANT in English

n. 25B6; verb

do you want more coffee? : DESIRE, wish for, hope for, fancy, care for, like; long for, yearn for, crave, hanker after, hunger for, thirst for, cry out for, covet; need; informal have a yen for, be dying for.

(informal) his toaster wants repairing : NEED, require, demand, cry out for.

(informal) you want to be more careful : SHOULD, ought, need, must.

(archaic) his poem wants a name : LACK, be without, have need of, be devoid of, be bereft of.

25B6; noun

his want of vigilance : LACK, absence, non-existence, unavailability; dearth, deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency, paucity, shortage, scarcity, deficit.

a time of want : NEED, neediness, austerity, privation, deprivation, poverty, impoverishment, penury, destitution; famine, drought.

all her wants would be taken care of : WISH, desire, demand, longing, yearning, fancy, craving, hankering; need, requirement; informal yen.

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