want
verb
[ wɒnt ]
• have a desire to possess or do (something); wish for.
• "I want an apple"
Similar:
desire,
wish for,
hope for,
fancy,
have a fancy for,
take a fancy to,
have an inclination for,
care for,
like,
set one's heart on,
long for,
yearn for,
pine for,
sigh for,
crave,
hanker after,
hunger for,
thirst for,
lust after,
cry out for,
be desperate for,
itch for,
covet,
need,
be bent on,
have a yen for,
be dying for,
• should or need to do something.
• "you don't want to believe everything you hear"
• lack something desirable or essential.
• "you shall want for nothing while you are with me"
want
noun
• a lack or deficiency of something.
• "Victorian houses which are in want of repair"
Similar:
lack,
absence,
non-existence,
unavailability,
dearth,
deficiency,
inadequacy,
insufficiency,
paucity,
shortage,
shortfall,
shortness,
scarcity,
scarceness,
scantiness,
undersupply,
deficit,
exiguity,
• a desire for something.
• "the expression of our wants and desires"
Similar:
wish,
desire,
demand,
longing,
yearning,
fancy,
craving,
hankering,
need,
requirement,
necessity,
essential,
requisite,
yen,
Origin:
Middle English: the noun from Old Norse vant, neuter of vanr ‘lacking’; the verb from Old Norse vanta ‘be lacking’. The original notion of ‘lack’ was early extended to ‘need’ and from this developed the sense ‘desire’.
