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want
[ wont, wawnt ]
verb (used with object)
- to feel a need or a desire for; wish for:
to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
Synonyms: ,
- to wish, need, crave, demand, or desire (often followed by an infinitive):
I want to see you.
She wants to be notified.
- to be without or be deficient in:
to want judgment; to want knowledge.
Synonyms:
- to fall short by (a specified amount):
The sum collected wants but a few dollars of the desired amount.
- to require or need:
The house wants painting.
verb (used without object)
- to feel inclined; wish; like (often followed by to ):
We can stay home if you want.
- to be deficient by the absence of some part or thing, or to feel or have a need (sometimes followed by for ):
He did not want for abilities.
- to have need (usually followed by for ):
If you want for anything, let him know.
- to be in a state of destitution, need, or poverty:
She would never allow her parents to want.
- to be lacking or absent, as a part or thing necessary to completeness:
All that wants is his signature.
noun
- something wanted or needed; necessity:
My wants are few.
Synonyms:
- something desired, demanded, or required:
a person of childish, capricious wants.
- absence or deficiency of something desirable or requisite; lack:
plants dying for want of rain.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- the state of being without something desired or needed; need:
to be in want of an assistant.
- the state of being without the necessaries of life; destitution; poverty:
a country where want is virtually unknown.
Synonyms: , ,
- a sense of lack or need of something:
to feel a vague want.
want
1/ ɒԳ /
verb
- tr to feel a need or longing for
I want a new hat
- when tr, may take a clause as object or an infinitive to wish, need, or desire (something or to do something)
he wants to go home
- intrusually used with a negative and often foll byfor to be lacking or deficient (in something necessary or desirable)
the child wants for nothing
- tr to feel the absence of
lying on the ground makes me want my bed
- tr to fall short by (a specified amount)
- tr to have need of or require (doing or being something)
your shoes want cleaning
- intr to be destitute
- tr; often passive to seek or request the presence of
you're wanted upstairs
- intr to be absent
- informal.tr; takes an infinitive should or ought (to do something)
you don't want to go out so late
- want in informal.to wish to be included in a venture
- want out informal.to wish to be excluded from a venture
noun
- the act or an instance of wanting
- anything that is needed, desired, or lacked
to supply someone's wants
- a lack, shortage, or absence
for want of common sense
- the state of being in need; destitution
the state should help those in want
- a sense of lack; craving
want
2/ ɒԳ /
noun
- dialect.a mole
Derived Forms
- ˈɲԳٱ, noun
Other yvlogs From
- ɲԳİ noun
- ɲԳl adjective
- ɲԳl·ness noun
- -ɲԳ noun
- ܲ·ɲԳĻ adjective
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Idioms and Phrases
- want in / out, Chiefly Midland.
- to desire to enter or leave:
The cat wants in.
- Informal. to desire acceptance in or release from something specified:
I talked with Louie about our plan, and he wants in.
More idioms and phrases containing want
- waste not, want not
Example Sentences
There are only eight weeks left so transfers are precious, every week matters that little bit more and you don't want to leave anything on the table.
Eleven times in a row, they got a mismatch they liked and found themselves in spots on the court they wanted only to see their shots fail.
"I have used my children to be my inspiration. It's because of them I wanted to wear a headscarf."
"Usually politicians with no experience listen to their aides a lot, but Yoon wanted to take the wheel," said one of his political advisers, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"I want to be surrounded by the people I love and just have everybody hold me in a giant cuddle puddle and get to take my last breath, surrounded by love and support," she says.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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